Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

This is one of the essays that was awarded the top prize in the annual Canon Collins Troubling Power Essay Competition, which invites participants to write on social justice issues relevant to Souther ...

There was a time when a South African holiday didn’t start with a boarding pass, it began with a packed boot, a map unfolded across the dashboard, and a promise of padkos at the halfway mark.

British taxpayers will fund a £52 million road built in the Amazon, supporting a project intended to help the climate. The road in the South American country Guyana that will lead to a tiny village is ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

At first glance, it’s just an old atlas — pages yellowed, corners torn, and a cover barely holding together. But inside, the world looks nothing like it does today. The Soviet Union stretches across ...

In a historic gesture of cultural restitution, Switzerland has returned three sacred artifacts to South Africa’s Nkuna royal ...

Archaeological excavation in Benin City, Nigeria, ahead of the construction of the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has ...