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'.

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...

The common Mercator projection map distorts the size of continents, making Africa appear much smaller than it is. The United Nations General Assembly voted to encourage the use of maps that more ...

The UN General Assembly has backed a resolution to change to maps that more accurately show the true size of Africa.

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out ...

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 ...