For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish Africa’s size and, along with it, its place in the world. But a new ...

After Watching. Find Africa in an atlas and use the scale bar to measure how long and wide this continent is. Discuss how vast this area is relative to the size of other places, such as Australia.

COLUMN: Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa.

Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa are launching the Correct the Map campaign to put an end to this enduring misperception. The Correct the Map campaign is calling on international organisations – ...