A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

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

The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

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Southern African human geography is currently showing signs of decolonisation. Recent literature has expressed concern with poverty and injustice, and a wide array of geographical terra incognita have ...

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Two Korean research bodies have agreed to use their geosciences technology to create a combined database of Africa's geography and natural resources.