As Sharon Dahan, CTO of Cellcom Guinea told us: “The biggest problem with Location-Based Services in Africa is a lack of accurate maps, especially maps for rural areas.

The map of Africa that exists today is largely a legacy of nineteenth century colonialism. Some of these borders are disputed and large sections of them have yet to be formalized. To this day 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. Challenging stereotypes. The full-size facsimile ...

Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, ...

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the map-runner must rely on geographical knowledge that 98 percent of american adults do not possess. AND, AGAIN, UPSIDE-DOWN MAP. The Africa map run is a simultaneous shuttle run and Wonderlic.