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Africa’s Forgotten Land: What the Maps Don’t Show

You’ve looked at dozens of maps - but you’ve probably never noticed this missing piece.

I wrote the first English-language guidebook to one of the world’s most obscure countries

Mauritania, Africa’s 11th largest country, remains a blank spot on all but the most die-hard of travellers’ maps, but that ...
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Inside An African Country Missing From Every Map In The World

For decades, one African country has been missing from every map. This investigation takes you inside 50 hours in the ...
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Africa’s land is not empty: New report debunks the myth of “unused land” and calls for a just future for the continent’s farmland

A new report challenges one of the most persistent and harmful myths shaping Africa’s development agenda — the idea that the ...

Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.