Old African kingdoms are also mapped, like Abyssinia in the oldest map of the collection. The map of Dahomey in West Africa is illustrated with depictions of the slave trade, and another shows the ...

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Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...