While a revolutionary tool for captains and explorers, the projection distorts the relative size of the continents, to the advantage of the West. On the Mercator map, Africa – sitting on the ...

Created in China in 1389, and clearly showing the shape of Africa, more than 100 years before Western explorers and map-makers reached the continent. "It's a political decision that places the ...

Virginie Baudais, senior researcher and director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Sahel and West Africa Programme, said that the three states’ decision was driven in ...

William De La Palma Director, Dutch West India Co. September 5, 1705 The history of the European seaborne slave trade with Africa goes back 50 years prior to Columbus' initial voyage to the Americas.