The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...

Rare African maps stored in Northwestern’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies can now be browsed from anywhere in the world. The collection consists of 113 maps published in Europe, ...

A video of Africa being the MC from other continents goes viral. TikTok video highlighting Africa's recognisable shape gets 5 ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents Africa, ...

Two independent teams of researchers have come up with the most accurate genetic maps ever made — a feat that should make the search for genes associated with diseases easier. To understand why an ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Building an African-American genetic map. The 29,589 unrelated African-American samples derive from five sources. Informed consent was provided by all the individuals participating in the ...