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

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

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Emphasizing the importance of encounters and interactions among civilizations, North Africa maps a prominent future for scholarship about this pivotal region. Date 2009 Type Books Physical description ...

The continent of Africa looks different depending on which calculations you choose to make a three dimensional reality into a ...

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

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

In other countries across the Middle East and North Africa, several Muslim governments have begun to expand the legal rights and protections for women — and in particular, to revise their ...