The African Union is fighting to correct the misrepresentation of the African continent. By advocating for maps that reflect Africa’s true size, the AU aims to ensure a more accurate representation of ...
A video of Africa being the MC from other continents goes viral. TikTok video highlighting Africa's recognisable shape gets 5 ...
The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The African Union has started an effort to oust the ...
The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...
The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator map with one that accurately reflects Africa’s true size Advocates say the centuries-old projection misrepresents Africa, ...
UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze prepares samples for a strontium isotope analysis. Postdoctoral fellow Xueye Wang and UCSC graduate and undergraduate students processed hundreds of ...