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 ...

Serving as a public source of Africa-related information, the U.S. Africa Command website, updated daily, hosts the latest news and updates on command activities and initiatives.

Updated at 10:15 a.m. ET Thursday. Students throughout Boston are getting a radically different view of the world, one laminated 24-by-36-inch sheet of paper at a time.

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.

Students and teachers were introduced to the new Gall-Peters Projection maps Thursday and reacted with surprise to the enlarged, narrow size of Africa and South America compared to the small and ...

A map of West Africa from 1747 refers to the region as "Negroland". The most recent map in the collection from 1915 shows the town plan for Dakar, Senegal's capital. The collection, which can be ...

Africa is much bigger than you think. Traditional maps have downplayed the size of the continent in comparison to other parts of the world for hundreds of years.