It’s as big a lie as the earth is flat.

Yet for years, centuries even, we’ve been led to believe that the African continent, the mother of much of civilization, the cradle of humankind, is no bigger than Greenland — even though it is actually 14 times larger.

It’s the near equivalent of being taught all these years that Africa was some rural, bush country only to learn that it’s really Wakanda.

How big is Africa for real?

You could fit the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe into Africa and still have land to spare, according to a petition on Change.org for the #CorrectTheMap campaign, which has more than 13,000 signatures.

“A fair world begins with a fair map,” Togolese Foreign Minister Robert Dussey told Reuters.

“A map is never neutral,” he said earlier at a United Nations briefing. “It shapes perceptions, influences how the place of peoples and continents in the world is understood.”

Dussey’s country,........

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