Terra intactum: Nikolaj Cyon used historical sources to draw a counterfactual map of Africa. What if Europeans never colonized Africa? What would modern-day boundaries of African countries look like had the Scramble for Africa never occurred? The short answer is that we will never know, but the thought-experiment is appealing. So appealing, in fact, that Swedish artist Nikolaj Cyon decided to create a
Counterfactual Africa
Counterfactual Africa
Counterfactual Africa
Terra intactum: Nikolaj Cyon used historical sources to draw a counterfactual map of Africa. What if Europeans never colonized Africa? What would modern-day boundaries of African countries look like had the Scramble for Africa never occurred? The short answer is that we will never know, but the thought-experiment is appealing. So appealing, in fact, that Swedish artist Nikolaj Cyon decided to create a