"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

For centuries, the Mercator map has shown the African continent to be smaller than it is. Now the African Union is calling for an end to this distortion, for Equal Earth and a new picture of global ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

It has been more than 70 years almost that the sun of European colonialism set, but the world map that we see today is a stark reminder of the imperial role. While straight lines divide deserts in ...