Correcting Africa’s map won’t bring economic prosperity – Moghalu

Former Central Bank of Nigeria Deputy Governor, Kingsley Moghalu, has welcomed a United Nations solution supporting the usage of satellite maps that amusement Africa’s size much accurately.

However, helium said changing the representation unsocial would not bring economical prosperity to the continent.

Moghalu said successful a station connected X on Sunday that the UN General Assembly voted 164-1 successful favour of the “Correct the Map” resolution, which was introduced by Togo connected behalf of the African Group and supported by the African Union.

The solution encourages schools, governments, planetary organisations and exertion platforms to usage equal-area maps, specified arsenic the Equal Earth projection, alternatively of the accepted Mercator map.

The Mercator projection was developed successful the 16th period chiefly for navigation. It makes areas person to the North and South Poles look larger portion making areas astir the Equator look smaller.

Moghalu noted that Africa is astir 14 times larger than Greenland, adjacent though some look astir akin successful size connected the Mercator map.

He stressed that the UN solution is not legally binding, does not halt the usage of the Mercator projection for navigation and volition not alteration nationalist borders.

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