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 ...

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 ...

home to Thomas Mtobu ‘Map of Africa’ Mapikela, who was instrumental in uniting political leaders and a founder of the ANC. Mapikela left a deep impression in the areas where he lived and ...