The African Union says the Mercator projection distorts Africa’s size and identity—and it’s pushing a new map to set the record straight.

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

The film "Continent of Africa: Land Below the Sahara" explores the complex history and geography of Africa, particularly focusing on the impact of European colonization and the subsequent rise of ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

The geography of modern Africa by William A. Hance Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Object Details author Hance, William Adams 1916- Notes Reviewed by Alan C. G. Best in International journal of ...

NASA Geography Expert Talks Climate-Friendly Farming in Africa Catherine Nakalembe, expert in gepgraphical sciences, visited Georgetown to give a talk on the use of climate-friendly agricultural ...

A University of Kansas researcher has spent years studying "aquaterra"—his term for regions around the world once populated by ancient humans that today are submerged under water due to sea ...