“You don’t have to know too much about the history of imperialism to know how heated and controversial the issue of maps, especially as it relates to the African continent, has been. Maps are not bad in themselves. They let us abstract space so that we can better imagine it. Maps are like mirrors that reflect to us the spaces we inhabit.”
Check it out: http://brittlepaper.com/2015/03/maps-africans-chimurenga/
The Decolonial Atlas 