Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it seem smaller.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as ...

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 ...

A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a modern map that shows Africa’s true size.

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

For over five centuries, a single version of the world map has shaped our perception of geography. The Mercator projection, ...

Recent discoveries in Central Africa have attracted increased attention to the geography of Ptolemy, and make one wonder how he came so near the truth.

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

KS3 Geography: Africa. Seven videos exploring the human and physical geography of Africa for pupils aged 11 to 14.

This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952 and examines the unpublished Africa Program that he subsequently presented to leading U.S. pacifists. I ...