This is a fair demand, and to understand it, you have to go back to 1569 when Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator created his maps. They were designed specifically for maritime navigation because they accurately preserve directions and angles, allowing sailors to easily plot courses.
Converting the spherical Earth onto a flat map inevitably causes distortion. The Mercator map increasingly stretches out landmasses the further they are from the equator and closer to the poles.
As a result, northern regions like North America, Europe, and Russia appear disproportionately massive, while areas near the equator, such as Africa and South America, appear relatively smaller.
Africa's demand is fair because, on a traditional Mercator map, Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, the African continent is approximately 14 times larger than Greenland.
There is also a psychological impact, as maps guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions of the world. Thus, visually shrinking Africa systematically diminishes its perceived importance and scale on the global stage.
Therefore, the African Union is advocating for the widespread adoption of "equal-area" maps, specifically highlighting the Equal Earth projection introduced in 2018. This newer projection factors in the Earth's curvature to depict continents in proportions that reflect their true surface areas.
President Obama talking about how these people with important titles and billions of dollars in the bank are no more special than anyone else! They put their pants on the same way as we all do one leg at a time! 👇👇👇👇
NOBODY’s wealth gets to me.
I am not aspiring to be Dangote. As long as i can provide for the people i call family and take care of my needs, i am good!!
Every other thing is just addition.
I want to sleep with my eyes fully closed.
I am not leaving this world with a single penny.
I have to stay contented.
This is me.
ZERO PRESSURE till the Hour God calls me.
I don't believe in building houses solely for the purpose of leaving them to my kids.
My priority is to give my child the best education and experiences possible, taking them to any level they aspire to, until the day they say, 'Dad, I’m a man or woman now and I can handle my own.
When everyone is doing well, no one will fight over outdated houses or designs.
This is my school of thought.
Lee Njiru was ahead of Time.
There is no difference between Raila Odinga, William Ruto, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and other politicians; they're all political cousins and they can turn against you!
President Carter was the first president to host leaders from Kenya for an official State Visit. And in his own dinner toast, he called the United States and Kenya “neighbors.”
Not because we share borders. But because we share beliefs.
Today, I am as optimistic and hopeful as I was all those years ago when Kenyan patriots raised a new flag high into the midnight sky.
Kenya and the United States stand together.
Committed to each other.
Committed to our people.
And committed to building a better world.
Mbeere North MP Geoffrey Ruru blames Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka for failing to put structures for the Kenyan economy in the last 40 years they have been in leadership.