Africa: History and Culture: Home

This collection features digital copies of 113 antique maps of Africa and accompanying text dating from the mid-16th Century to the early 20th Century.

The AFRITERRA LIBRARY embraces a philanthropic mission to preserve and apply the rich cartographic record of Africa, enabling historical interpretation and transformative education. In 1995, a private foundation established the featured facility in Boston Massachusetts with a material endowment defining 5000 of the rarest original maps focused on Africa. This distinction is achieved by cataloging and digitizing the vital information marked on fragile documents that span 500 years. The complete scope covers all regions and scales in 8 different languages. By securing and presenting such a deep archive, the effect is to sort through history, to be so explicit as to uncover the roots of a continent.

An online exhibit featuring Stanford University library's collection of maps of Africa.