The 1569 Mercator map did not merely misrepresent Africa’s size—it mutilated its dignity and incapacitated its destiny. From the moment Gerardus Mercator shrank Africa on paper, the continent was deliberately diminished in the eyes of the world. And, 300 years later, at the Berlin Conference of 1884, the very powers who first made Africa look […]
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