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The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

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A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

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