The African slave trade is depicted in this map from 1892 "They are just fascinating to look at," he says. Old African kingdoms are also mapped, like Abyssinia in the oldest map of the collection. The ...

Saleroom assistant Syd Drew was handling the 1573 map with care after it was bought for £1900. Cathy Marsden, book specialist at Lyon & Turnbull, said: “De Jode’s atlas was not a financial ...

Yet, continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The ...

Old times African pilgrims journeying to and ... chair of the African Studies and Research Section at the International Africa University says that: " Africa's roads to Al-Hajj are too many ...