Rhodes University provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Can you name the river closest to where you live? Have you ever seen that river on a map? How would you react if you saw ...

This example processes the MAPS.AFRICA map data set, supplied with SAS/GRAPH, to produce a new map data set that contains no internal boundaries. This is done by adding a new variable, REGION, to the ...

As you travel along Africa’s western coast, you’ll see a narrow strip of land wrapped around the Gambia River and almost entirely surrounded by Senegal. This is The Gambia, the smallest ...

which at first appears to dominate a huge section of the map. However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, Russia begins to shrink. By the time the ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...

African boundaries were shaped years later, rather than during the Berlin Conference. Rivers were used to map Africa because Europeans were particular about trade routes into the continent. Sixty-two ...