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How geography doomed Africa, before modern history even began

Africa’s history wasn’t shaped only by leaders, wars, or politics—geography played a brutal role. This video breaks down the ...
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Africa is much bigger than most maps show, and a new campaign wants that fixed

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 ...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
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Here’s how Africa wants to redraw the world map

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...
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World maps get Africa’s size wrong: cartographers explain why fixing it matters

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a ...
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is... The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the ...