Earlier this month, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt Equal Earth maps and to phase out the distortions of the widely used Mercator Projection.

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Many Africans remain blissfully oblivious that maps are not innocent; they are weapons wielded by empire builders .

Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator’s map offered a solution to a problem that had long troubled map-makers: how to represent the curved surface of the globe on a flat chart.

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While the US was the only country that opposed the resolution, Ukraine, Serbia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia & Moldova ...