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

Ancient North Africa and its expansive civilizations -- Rome and North Africa -- Medieval North Africa: from the arrival of Islam to the Berber empires -- Almoravid and the Almohad empires and their ...

In his first trip to Africa as U.S. secretary of defense, Mark Esper noted that “China and Russia continue to intimidate and coerce their neighbors while expanding their authoritarian influence ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...