LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) -The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more ...

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"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.

Africa is the second-largest continent by land area and holds the most amount of countries at 54 sovereign nations. With numbers that high equating to historic and rich cultural diversity, local ...