The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

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

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

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 current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

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

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, ...