France is not leaving africa – it is changing its method
France is not leaving Africa. It is changing its method. That may be the clearest message from the recent Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, where French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President William Ruto co-hosted a major gathering of African leaders, investors, business figures and young innovators. Officially, the summit was framed as “Africa–France […]
DR. HASSAN ALIYU ON RESIZING AFRICA CORRECTLY ON THE WORLD MAP
In this edition of Hot Topic on WestAfrica.news, artist and cultural thinker Dr Hassan Aliyu reflects on a subject that is at once geographical, historical and psychological: the representation of Africa on the world map. For generations, the familiar world map has shaped how people imagine continents, power and place. Yet Africa, despite its vast […]
Mali presses for recognition of africa’s actual size
With African Union support for fairer world maps, the campaign to correct Africa’s distorted image becomes a question of geography, education and global perception. For generations, Africa’s place on the world map has carried a quiet but powerful distortion. The familiar Mercator projection, created in the 16th century for navigation, has long enlarged regions closer […]