Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Archaeologists have discovered a civilisation in Argentina that had evaded all detection till now. The early humans lived here thousands of years ago, yet scientists had never seen any signs of them ...

Most African countries lack accurate local base maps, stalling all sorts of government and business decisions. A new project ...

The Sahrawi, descendants of Arab and Berber nomads who herded camels and goats across the desert for millennia, found their ...

The forum in South Africa shined a light on pressing realities faced by the continent. It may also have laid the groundwork ...

Africa Re-Union Debuts at FNB Art Joburg at the Sandton Convention Center. The Africa Re-Union, a landmark artistic initiative, is to be unveiled at the FNB Art Joburg, transforming the fair into a ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...

The call is a demand for Africans to be represented on their own terms, rather than through cartographic traditions that have long diminished their scale and significance. The African Union has ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4 500 ...