A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

African Union promotes a new map revealing Africa’s true scale, aiming to reshape global perspectives on the continent’s size ...

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

The African Union is pushing to end Mercator’s distortions and replace it with projections that reflect the continent’s real proportions ...

The African Union has intensified a campaign for the use of the "right map of Africa". In the widely used Mercator map, Africa appears smaller than it is. In a bid to depict the continent's relative ...

Given its distortions, why has the Mercator projection continued to dominate classrooms, atlases and even digital maps for centuries?

For centuries, Africa has been systematically erased through the hegemonic Western cartographic gaze, its territorial ...