The initiative will see students comparing different maps ... to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the equator, reasonably undistorted – is left looking ...

Students and teachers were introduced to the new Gall-Peters Projection maps Thursday and reacted with surprise to the enlarged, narrow size of Africa and South America compared to the small and ...

A collection of rare maps of Africa, dating from 1530 to 1915, has been made freely available on the internet by Northwestern University in the US. Curator David Easterbrook says the antique maps not ...

‘There were students who were confused by it and were ... ‘When your geography exam board can’t even produce an accurate map of Africa! An apology to the people of Gabon and Republic of ...