The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.
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The European Empire created the strategy of divide-and-rule for all of Africa, which lay the foundation for all subsequent violence.
The impact of this setup, and the long-term effects, do not end when the empire leaves, because the benefactors remain behind to continue it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my African elders are so funny, so they find that this is an issue really urgent worth fighting for 😃😃😃 I hope one day we will finally get serious leaders we too.
About time
That is the MOST important topic to tackle…not.
If you have sh@t achievements, let's make the continent look bigger. It should help
0:43 Isn't this the lady from that South Africa Mnet produced Series Jacob's Cross
Played the character of Jacob's half sister
How does adjusting the size of the continent on the world map, make Africa a better place?
Genuinely asking my African brothers and sisters🙏🏿
The mercator projection does have a couple of advantages. First, although it does distort size, it preserves shapes better than most others at world-map scales.
The other thing is direction. Because it preserves shape, you can easily look on a map and tell the compass direction between two points. On some of the more size-preserving projections, any line that is not a great circle segment shows as a curve.
In short, although it does have its shortcomings, it is probably the easiest one for teaching grade-school kids the relationship between a map and a globe, and the world.
Don't Trust men false knowledge Trust God only who knows the true size of every continent
It makes whites feel bigger when they see Africa smaller
Finally the truth is coming out. There is also no true image of the world from above. NASA only has a collection of data from different satellite's which is what they gave us. Thats why they dont want us to go to Antarctica__we might discover the ice wall and the world ain't spherical. Google "antartic treaty". They don't want us to know truth about our world.
OK.
Who told Africans, that Maps are supposed to be PROPORTIONAL ? 😠🙄
Why is it always Black women in media who being shown as speaking for Black people. We as Black men are truly seen as the “lady of the races.”
Damn….
😂😂What nonsense, to be relevant you have to have decent GDP and military capabilities, this requires hard work and cognitive abilities , this does not happen there at this moment
It doesn't hurt to show the truth. Except the one lying.
That's what it was done to demean and keep demeaning us…….shame on them caucasoids
Tell the truth and shame the devils
Great news. The world should adopt a real map. Then AU also has to adopt back African refugees from EU countries.
Who are we demanding this from? All we need is to measure and publish our own map and ditch this colonial rubbish map
Created one or shut the f up .
I think they just wanted to make it fit on the page.
Yeah good and decolonisation is necessary but what about real issues ?
In the city of Paris, France, right now, each evening, dozens of young Africans are under tents at a place called Pont Marie in the 4th district of Paris, I went to speak to some of them. None of them said that they had run away from Africa because of the size of the continent being wrongly represented. So why is the African Union in front of all these serious issues? It seems to be so concerned with the represented size of the continent?
Let's make human condition, peace, and human fulfilment in Africa. Hope and well-being, democracy and freedom, etc. Our perspective and our horizon in a genesis of the love of God. The size can be misrepresented it doesn't mean the reality, God's creativity, in other words, the real size of the continent changes. Therefore, let's channel the energies on what matters most.
We have the technology to make countries their actual size, so it’s about time we adopt the Equal Earth model as the standard for world maps.
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