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Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...
Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.
Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.
For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...
European VC firm Speedinvest led the round, with backing from Google’s Africa Investment Fund and Equator, an Africa-focused climate tech fund.
The News Venture capital firm Equator closed a $55 million fund focused on climate tech startups in sub-Saharan Africa on Tuesday, boosting financing for early-stage ventures in sectors ranging ...
Ever wonder why Africa’s borders appear so strange? From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map.
In contrast, the regions along the equator—Africa, India, and South America, to name a few—appear smaller, especially when seen next to the distorted northern half of the map.