Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

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

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From ...

“It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” AU Commission deputy chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi told ...

The campaign to correct the map is led by the advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa that urge organisations to ...

The African Union backs a campaign to replace the Mercator map with a more accurate projection that reflects Africa’s true size and global significance.

The African Union is joining an effort to urge global institutions to adopt a new map of Africa that more accurately shows ...

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign for the worldwide adoption of the ‘correct’ map of the continent that ...