For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

It is part of an exhibition drawing attention to the history of South Africa and the way it is perceived around the world. The Chinese map, covering more than 17 square metres, was produced in silk.

If you haven’t already seen this Harvard University map of ethnicity in Africa, based on data from a 2001 book edited by anthropologist Marc Leo Felix, it is really worth taking in: Each color ...

Atlas Pro. This 1935 Map of Africa Explains So Much. Posted: November 27, 2024 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. We dive deep into a 1935 map of Africa, a relic that captures a pivotal moment in the ...

The map below shows 50 of the most commonly spoken, ranging from Bantu to Songha, according to Marc Felix and Charles Meurs' 2001 book Peoples' Atlas of Africa: African countries are also quite ...

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

When I briefly lived in South Africa a few years ago, I was surprised to find that most people in the newsroom where I was interning spoke at least two languages: English and a Dutch dialect ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eighty years after the release of "Green Hills of Africa," the son and grandson of Ernest Hemingway are urging a fresh look at a work critics have often set aside. Published in ...

Seeing Green In Africa. Last week, much of the world was focused on Microsoft's attempt to shape the Internet with its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. But just a week earlier, ...

Maps can show “the big picture” to lots and lots of people in an engaging and colourful way. What we learned when our map of southern Africa’s rivers went viral Home ...