Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to. Seen in rectangular form, Antarctica is intact and at the bottom right. The Americas and ...

IT is to be regretted that the French delegates have declined to accept some of the resolutions of the Prime Meridian Conference, but it is to be hoped that their non-adherence is only temporary ...

The map’s mistakes were not likely to be a conspiracy against Africa or the Global South, but its continued use, he added, is inherently political. Advertisement ...