Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

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 ...

Crisscrossed by rail-straight lines that correspond to constant compass bearings, the Mercator projection was ideal for navigation in the age of sail, at the expense of showing the actual size of ...

The Mercator map from 1569 distorts Africa’s true size and ‘downplays its importance,’ Africa No Filter’s executive director tells Anadolu - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Africa Re-Union Debuts at FNB Art Joburg at the Sandton Convention Center. The Africa Re-Union, a landmark artistic ...

A campaign group is pushing to have the current world map "corrected" to show Africa is actually larger than the current Mercator projection.

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that has prompted a new African initiative, “Correct the Map,” calling for depictions that show Africa’s true scale. “For ...

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 calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. A growing campaign ...