The Map of Africa Is Being Redrawn. It’s a Trap.

It’s been many years since the continent seemed more spectral, and its people more vulnerable, than it does now.

New world map makes Africa look bigger: what’s the fuss about? Cartographers explain

Cartographers explain how the Equal Earth projection shows Africa’s true relative size and why the world map we use matters.
globalpost.com

The Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance

The Fight for a New Map Reflecting Africa’s True Size Challenges Centuries of Western Dominance AFRICA When Nigerian-born Abimbola Ogundairo joined a ...
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Africa to look bigger on world maps: How map projections have changed over time

Africa is much larger than it appears on many familiar world maps. That is because the maps we have grown up seeing often distort the relative size of continents, making regions closer to the poles ...
NatureOpinion

The Mercator map distorts Africa. Research investment is another imbalance to fix

The Mercator projection, left, distorts the relative size of landmasses, particularly towards the poles. The Equal Earth ...
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UN endorses new world map showing Africa’s true size — after US voted against it

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday endorsed a new world map that represents Africa more accurately in its larger size, a culmination of a recent campaign led by African countries and ...
Hyperallergic

Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
The Globe and Mail

World maps have underestimated Africa’s size for centuries. Activists hope to change that

When a Trump administration official presented a cringingly erroneous map of Africa at a global conference last month, the blunder gave fresh momentum to a campaign for an accurate world map that ...