Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

Nowhere is the gap between reality and cartographic representation greater than in parts of Africa. The map of Africa that exists today is largely a legacy of nineteenth century colonialism. Some of ...

Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two percent of official African boundaries were influenced by historical political ...

Describing himself as a “border being” who is always in motion ... ways of portraying the complexities of life in contemporary Africa. Once a year, the project brings together a troupe ...

He reported that, at the recent SITA Borders Management Africa Summit, in Nairobi, Kenya, speakers and delegates highlighted that the biggest single hindrance to truly implementing these ...