On the surface, it’s just an old map—but every border tells a deeper story. This 1935 view of Africa offers a striking look into colonial power and how it shaped the continent ...

The top two teams from each group, plus the three best third-place nations, comprise the 16 sides that enter the knockout ...

The 2025-26 Africa Cup of Nations is into the knockout stage with the quarterfinals getting underway on Friday, Jan. 9 for ...

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 ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

At the Operations Transformation Forum Africa 2025 (OTF Africa 2025) during AfricaCom, Safaricom Digital Service 2.0 was jointly launched with Huawei. It’s a single, intelligent interface unifying ...

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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 ...

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4 500 ...

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a change-the-map campaign in April. “When whole generations, in Africa and elsewhere, learn from a distorted map, they ...