The dispute is not really over whether the Mercator projection distorts Africa. It does. The argument is over whether that distortion is simply a technical flaw in a 16th-century navigation tool or part of a political inheritance worth correcting. When the United Nations General Assembly voted on September 4 to back wider use of maps
African independence leaders, Black American activists and Caribbean intellectuals once saw their struggles as parts of the same political project. W.E.B. Du Bois worked alongside African nationalists. Kwame Nkrumah welcomed Black thinkers and organisers to Ghana. Martin Luther King Jr. attended Ghana’s independence celebrations. Malcolm X travelled across Africa seeking international support for Black Americans.
The South African billionaire’s family controls more than half of Richemont’s voting rights, while his wealth extends across luxury, healthcare and investments. Johann Rupert crossed the $20 billion mark on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in June 2026, becoming the second African after Aliko Dangote to reach that level on the ranking. The figure has moved
Reach Robotics put MekaMon inside Apple Stores before shutting down in 2019. Seven years later, Adekunle is building AI for science in Britain and language technology in Nigeria. Silas Adekunle had already done the part most hardware founders never reach. His company had built a physical product, sold its first production run, raised venture capital
She took over MultiChoice Nigeria after subscriber losses, price disputes and a Canal+ takeover. Her job is to defend a pay-TV business in a market where viewers have more ways to leave. When Kemi Omotosho became chief executive of MultiChoice Nigeria in January, the business she inherited was already losing customers. MultiChoice said its Nigerian