US Edition“Africans Were Taught This Unreal Map of Africa” — Now What? - Prime Progress NG
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They propose an alternative to the Mercator projection, created in the 16th century and still the most widely used, but which greatly distorts the dimensions of the continents.
Africa in Summary / August 27, 2025. “The maps shape the imagination. When children open their textbooks and see that Africa is represented as smaller than Europe, they internalize a message of marginality,” they stress from the organization Speak Up Africa, the driving force behind the ‘Correct the map’ campaign. Africa is fourteen [...] The entry Africa. ‘Correct the map’, a campaign to return the corresponding size to the African continent wa…
“Maps are not just tools, they are symbols, and correcting the map is also correcting the global narrative about Africa; it is a matter of dignity.” The African Union has called for the abandonment of the distorted map that is still one of the most widely used in the world.
Africa is fourteen times the size of Greenland and it fits almost all European countries, plus the United States,...
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