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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 African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...
The World Americans Don’t Know Anything About African Geography, and That’s a Problem By Joshua Keating Nov 04, 201412:15 PM ...
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Apartheid geography was so finely designed that even the black area is sub-divided between a so-called colored township – common South African parlance for people of mixed racial heritage ...
Two Korean research bodies have agreed to use their geosciences technology to create a combined database of Africa's geography and natural resources.
Maarten Bosker, Harry Garretsen, Economic Geography and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa, The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2012), pp. 443-485 ...
When it comes to geography, many people believe common myths or have misconceptions that are far from the truth. From the ...
Southern African human geography is currently showing signs of decolonisation. Recent literature has expressed concern with poverty and injustice, and a wide array of geographical terra incognita have ...