The campaign to correct the map is led by the advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa that urge organisations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection. The African Union (AU) that has 55 ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, ...

CAPE TOWN: The unveiling in South Africa’s parliament on Monday of a replica of an ancient Chinese map of the then known world which includes a recognizable outline of Africa is raising intriguing ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

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 ...

African nations are demanding that the 'distorted' world map be redrawn to show the true scale of the continent that they argue has been misrepresented for centuries. The African Union (AU) has backed ...

The Equal Earth projections. The African Union has endorsed using the Equal Earth Projection as it better represents the true size of the world’s continents. The African Union has endorsed the ...

There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions. Africa's geographic tragedy through the ...