The Horn of Africa, consisting of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia is sticking out of eastern Africa and contains extreme examples of fertility and barrenness, summits and depths, and ...

How much power lies in a map? The push to replace the ‘distorted’ Mercator projection with a more accurate map that portrays ...

Eusebius McKaiser is the host a daily radio talk show in Johannesburg and the author of “A Bantu in My Bathroom: Debating Race, Sexuality and Other Uncomfortable South African Topics.” Updated July 30 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. I share the view that the Mediterranean littoral belongs to Africa only in the ...

The African Union endorses the #CorrectTheMap campaign to promote accurate representation of Africa's size on world maps, ...

W. D. Cooley's merits as a geographer, and even his founding of the Hakluyt Society, have been largely forgotten. He is noticed, if at all, as the most notorious of the 'armchair geographers' who ...

The map above has been making the Internet rounds this week for obvious reasons. One could quibble with the details. Congo recently had a now-contained outbreak of a different strain of Ebola. A ...

The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2012), pp. 443-485 (43 pages) Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical ...

Explore South Africa’s geography, from dramatic coastlines and savannahs to mountain ranges, deserts, and forests. This film ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern ...