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

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

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 ...

Georgetown University’s Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program hosted the Loewy Lecture in Technology and International Affairs on Jan. 25, featuring a presentation about the ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

She has worked for over two decades in East Africa, specifically with pastoral/agro-pastoral Maasai communities in Tanzania and Kenya and has recently begun to expand her research to include ...

Reforestation plans in Africa could go awry Date: October 28, 2020 Source: University of Montreal Summary: An international team publishes the findings of a study on the biogeographical history of ...

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 ...