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[Video] RealLifeLore | Why This Part of Africa is Erased on Every Map You See (youtu.be)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never saw a map where this was "erased".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did you watch the first 30 seconds of the video?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, it's a shit title for what the video describes. Erased is absolutely the wrong word to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Politics. Power vaccume from dying Spainish empire left 4 groups fighting for the territory. Map makers don't want to take sides..