When the colonial powers gathered in Berlin in 1884 ndash;1885 to carve Africa into bite-sized territories, they were not ...

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford are famous for their innovations in electricity generation and automobiles respectively, but ...

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, where European powers carved the continent into colonies without African representation, created geopolitical lines that still define maps today. The Mercator ...

After a four-year, $80 million renovation, this display of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the ancient Americas seems bigger, ...

The Mercator projection fosters a false impression that Africa is marginal, an African Union official said.

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays ...

The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From the moment Gerardus Mercator shrank Africa on paper, the continent ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame ...

Late 19th-century in the Central African Coast ; The Congo Free State and its imagery, 1885-1908 ; Photographs from the Congo Free State in present-day perspective ; Imagery and the anti-Léopold ...