Maps are never neutral, and this one proves it. This video examines a 1935 map of Africa and what it reveals about borders, ...

This video breaks down a rare 1866 map of Africa created just before the Scramble for the continent began. It reveals forgotten kingdoms, trade networks, and cultural boundaries that no longer exist ...

In Aflao, on the Ghana–Togo border, we joined a community football match as part of our Borderless Africa community activities, Ghanaians on one side, Togolese on the other We met several interesting ...

How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group ...

If cartography is defined only as paper maps drawn in European formats, then Europe wins by definition. If cartography is defined as the reliable transmission of spatial knowledge that enables ...

Are the names we use in South Africa merely symbols of cultural recognition, or do they perpetuate historical injustices?

Belgium's AfricaMuseum is the country's biggest dedicated to the Congo, displaying millions of colonial-era objects and ...

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Samia Suluhu Hassan has caused Tanzania’s most dangerous crisis since independence ...

A Paris exhibition is looking at how French anthropologists collected African heritage in the European colonial period, writes David Tresilian Modelled according to its curators on a police enquiry in ...

In Worlds of Unfreedom, Roquinaldo Ferreira recasts West Central Africa as a key battleground in the struggle to abolish the transatlantic slave trade between the 1830s and the 1860s. Ferreira ...

Threads of Confluence, a travelling exhibition, tells the story of a grand African migration to India, and the export of a ...