UN resolutions on the transatlantic slave trade and the world map have brought questions of reparations and Africa's position ...

We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to ...

It is the culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and advocacy groups to reject 'cartographic colonialism'.

The Mercator map makes Africa look smaller than it is, as a push for more accurate maps asks us to rethink how we see the ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...

The Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance AFRICA When Nigerian-born ...

Nearly every voting country recently approved of a new way to depict the world. The United Nations' endorsement of a new global map is intended to better represent the relative sizes of continents and ...

A new map projection endorsed by the U.N. aims to represent Africa and other continents at their more accurate relative sizes ...

History was made on Friday when a new map (the Equal Earth Map) of the world was endorsed by the United Nations in a vote on a resolution to correct the ‘distortions’ in the old world map, which was ...

On September 4, the United Nations GeneralAssembly made what may become one of the most symbolic decisions in modernhistory. In an overwhelming vote of 164 in favour, one against and six abstentions, ...

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...