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Why this old map explains modern African borders

This video breaks down a rare 1866 map of Africa created just before the Scramble for the continent began. It reveals ...
Forbes

Africa's New Map

There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions. Africa's geographic tragedy through the ...
Gizmodo

A Map Of Colonial Africa Just Before The Outbreak Of World War I

European powers were slow to realize the benefits of grabbing African territories, but once the mad rush to claim land started in 1876, the continent was quickly — and at times brutally — overrun. By ...

Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size

By Noel Kokou Tadegnon and Catarina Demony LOME, April 14 (Reuters) - Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of Africa and ditch ...