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[Kingsley Moghalu OON @MoghaluKingsley]

What’s in a Map?

The UN General Assembly has voted 164–1 to encourage the world to stop drawing Africa as if it were the size of Greenland.

The “Correct the Map” resolution, led by Togo for the African Group and backed by the African Union, urges schools, governments, international organisations and technology platforms to use equal-area projections such as Equal Earth instead of the 16th-century Mercator map. That map inflates landmasses near the poles and shrinks those near the equator. Africa is about fourteen times larger than Greenland. On the map most of us grew up with, they look almost the same size. The resolution is not binding. It does not ban Mercator for navigation. It does not redraw a border. It asks the world to stop teaching a distortion as geography.

That decision matters. And it does not.

It matters because maps are never only maps. They are instruments of worldview. They tell children who is large and who is small, who is central and who is peripheral. For centuries a European navigational tool became the default picture of the planet. When Africa is visually minimised, it is easier to treat the continent as marginal in politics, capital and history. Correcting a false image is intellectual hygiene. Dignity is not a small thing. Representation is not nothing.

But a more accurate silhouette will not industrialise Africa. It will not keep the lights on, raise yields, secure property rights, or produce the manufactured goods that move a country from poverty to prosperity. A map can change how the world sees Africa. It cannot change how African states organise themselves.

In Emerging Africa I argued that the continent was emerging, not rising — and that the difference is not semantic. Emergence is visibility and other people’s narratives. Transformation is productivity, skills, governance, and a coherent worldview of who we are, where we are going, and how we intend to get there.

Development is first a state of the mind. Without that inner architecture — values, strategy, organisation — we keep mistaking symbols for substance.

Now that we are “bigger” on the wall chart, will development follow? No. Not from the map.
Did Rising Asia rise by a map? China did not become a workshop of the world because cartographers enlarged it. South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and later Vietnam did not escape poverty by winning a vote in New York. They rose by seriousness about education, industrial discipline, state capacity and a long-horizon idea of national purpose. The map followed the factories, not the other way around.

This is the recurring temptation in our political culture: emotionally satisfying symbolism that misses the real point. A corrected map can nourish pride. Pride without production is a mood, not a strategy.

Teach the true size of Africa. Let children see that this continent can contain the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe and still have land to spare. That is a useful shock to the imagination.

Then ask the only question that converts size into power: what are we building on that land?

A fairer map is a beginning of perception. It is not the beginning of prosperity. The world does not owe Africa a projection. Africa owes itself a plan.
#Africa #EmergingAfrica #Governance #Development #UNGA #Geopolitics

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The man was completely confused. "I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't live a 'risky' life. How?”

The doctors traced it back to a chronic Hepatitis B infection he never knew he had. My colleague asked him one question…

“Can you find your childhood immunization card?" The man went to dig it up from his mother's old files. My people...

The Hepatitis B vaccine schedule was never completed. His parents just forgot. He has been walking around completely unprotected from a killer virus for over 40 years.

Now that man’s life has been cut short because he didn’t take the vaccine he was supposed to.

This is why we say that small card is not just ‘for school'. It is your child's defense for their entire life.

Please don’t guess or assume. Go and find that card. Check it. Is it complete?

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Arewa boasts the highest Muslim population in Nigeria. In many of its states, over 90% of the citizens are Muslims. The streets are filled with mosques, Islamic schools are everywhere, and scholars are in abundance. On the surface, you would think these are the most God-conscious places in the country.

They parade their commitment to Islam loudly, setting up Hisbah to police private lives, arresting boys for haircuts, girls for dressing, destroying business that doesn't confirm with shariah law, and dragging people for not fasting.

Yet, despite all this show of piety, these same states are drowning in b@nditry, terr0rism, kidn@pping, and bl00dshed. And here is the bitter irony: the terr0rists and bandits wreaking havoc are not outsiders. They are their own people. Born, raised, and shaped by the same so-called Islamic environment.

So what exactly is the purpose of all the mosques? What is the essence of the endless adhan, the Friday khutbahs, the religious slogans, when the same soil keeps producing monsters?

Islam was never about obsessing over appearances while the heart rots. If a state can flood its streets with mosques but fails to produce human beings with conscience, justice, and mercy, what Islam is truly being practiced?

Arewa has perfected religious performances but failed miserably at genuine transformation. And that is why, despite all the mosques and scholars, the land remains curs3d with vi0lence and d3struction.

Until this hyp0crisy is faced head-on, nothing will change.

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