The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

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

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 ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...