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A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released ...

The map of Africa that exists today is largely a legacy of nineteenth century colonialism. Some of these borders are disputed and large sections of them have yet to be formalized. To this day the ...

By Robert D. Kaplan and Mark Schroeder There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions.

Interactive map of Africa. TOP STORIES. June 13, 2025 Army influencers unite for Operation Ring the Bell; June 13, 2025 US Army air defenders master expertise in Hungary during Defender Europe 25; ...

This is believed to be the first map of Africa, as a continent. “Africa” was originally a Roman term for the region of modern Tunisia and the western portion of Libya.

A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD). By the time World War I broke out, Britain and France collectively controlled 45% of Africa’s population. Germany, late to the show, held on to 9%.

If you haven’t already seen this Harvard University map of ethnicity in Africa, based on data from a 2001 book edited by anthropologist Marc Leo Felix, it is really worth taking in: Each color ...