Nelson Amenya: The map changed, but Africa still has a harder fight ahead Our Columnists 7 min ago

The African Union backed the Equal Earth projection, the campaign calling it a matter of “cartographic justice”, and Togo carried the file to New York, where its foreign minister Robert Dussey told the Assembly that “a fair world begins with a fair map”.

Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa had campaigned for the change on the reasonable ground that children raised on a shrunken Africa absorb a shrunken sense of their own continent.

By 164 votes to one, with six abstentions, the world’s governments agreed that schools, ministries and technology companies should show Africa at something closer to its true size rather than the shrunken continent we grew up staring at on classroom walls.