By 1914, European powers controlled 90% of Africa, with only Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and Liberia remaining independent. A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD).

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A new map of nearly all of Africa shows exactly where the continent’s 1.3 billion people live, down to the meter, which could help everyone from local governments to aid organizations.

Curator David Easterbrook says the antique maps not only show the growing geographical knowledge of Africa but the progression of colonisation. "Early cartographers had not visited or surveyed the ...

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 official map ...

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. ... Still more remarkable is this Abraham Ortelius map from only 30 years later. Published at Antwerp in 1584.

As of 2022, Nigeria accounted for around a quarter of the total languages spoken in Africa with 520. According to the map, the most popular languages spoken there are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa.