Africa: Thirsty beside the river of abundance

On September 4, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backed the “Correct the Map” initiative, encouraging governments, schools and technology companies to move away from the familiar Mercator projection, which exaggerates land masses nearer the poles and makes equatorial regions such as Africa appear smaller than they really are.

Somewhere, an African farmer is staring at uncultivated land while officials attend an international conference on “Food Security in Africa.

Asia remains the world’s largest continent, but Africa is enormous.