The Horn of Africa, consisting of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia is sticking out of eastern Africa and contains ...

Teaching Geography is a journal published by the Geographical Association dedicated to geography teaching in the 11–19 age range aimed at students (Undergraduate, PGCE, Masters, Post graduate), ...

For centuries, the maps used to understand the world have distorted Africa’s size compared to most northerly nations.

Reviewed by Alan C. G. Best in International journal of African historical studies (Boston) 9 (4) 1976 pages 666-668 (DT1.A2592 AFA) Contents Introduction. The interest in Africa -- The physical ...

South Africa is arguably the most geographically diverse country in the world, with landscapes ranging from dry deserts over ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

The African Union has endorsed a campaign to replace traditional maps that have distorted the size of continents like Africa.

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Georgetown University’s Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program hosted the Loewy Lecture in Technology and International Affairs on Jan. 25, featuring a presentation about the ...

NASA’s advanced remote sensing technology can analyze the chemical composition of stars and search for signs of life in the cosmos. It can also tell us a lot about our own planet, like the amount of ...

As the global community grapples with how to improve biodiversity conservation efforts, Indigenous communities around the world are demanding the process of conservation itself be decolonized. In this ...