Post by Olúwafémi Adéríbigbé (@Arafemiloye)

For generations, millions of African schoolchildren have grown up staring at world maps that quietly made their continent look smaller, less important, and less significant than it actually is.

Development Diaries @Dev_Diaries reports that Togo has formally launched a campaign under the African Union to persuade the United Nations General Assembly to replace the widely used Mercator projection with the Equal Earth projection, a map system that more accurately represents the true size of continents and countries. https://developmentdiaries.com/why-africa-looks-smaller-than-it-really-is-on-world-maps-and-why-togo-wants-that-changed/

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