CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Historic Maps of Africa collection includes 78 maps and dates from circa 1631 to 1973. Geographic content of individual maps varies from ...

The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...

Rare African maps stored in Northwestern’s Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies can now be browsed from anywhere in the world. The collection consists of 113 maps published in Europe, ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents Africa, ...

Deo D. Shirima is in the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation and at the National Carbon Monitoring Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, PO Box 3010, Tanzania. The authors had ...

Two independent teams of researchers have come up with the most accurate genetic maps ever made — a feat that should make the search for genes associated with diseases easier. To understand why an ...

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 ...