A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.

Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

The Chinese map, covering more than 17 square metres, was produced in silk. It is thought to be a copy of a map sculpted into rock 20 or 30 years earlier. It is never been shown to the public before ...

Curator David Easterbrook says the antique maps not only show the growing geographical knowledge of Africa but the progression of colonisation. "Early cartographers had not visited or surveyed the ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa. ... Let Culture and Nature Draw a Post-Colonial Map. Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town An Indigenous State in Chile .