But, in reality, three Canadas would comfortably fit inside Africa. Our world map is wildly misleading. It’s all down to the European cartographer Geert de Kremer, better known as Mercator ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the political map of Africa as we know it today was solely determined at the Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 by European actors who knew little about conditions ...

Besides polling in high-profile democracies like America and India there are elections in more than twenty African nations, with South Africa voting this month. For more than a decade the political map ...