Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. I’m Chioma, and I’m ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. The north of Africa ...

Designed for 16th-century maritime navigation, the map artificially enlarges Global North regions while ... to using maps that depict Africa’s true size. “Geography has history.

Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the ...