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When Abimbola Ogundairo saw a pretty wooden map she thought would be great decor for her walls, she did something most regular buyers wouldn’t think of: She messaged the manufacturers with a simple, yet charged question.
“Which map projection did you use?” she asked, referring to the method of representing maps on a flat plane.
The sellers never responded, but Ogundairo suspected they used a problematic projection. Discouraged, she refused to place an order.
Ogundairo’s obsession with map projections is not random. The 28-year-old is leading an African-led campaign to get more of…
