The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently featured one of our maps in an article on their website, titled “The Path They Trod: An Avenue of Mango Trees on the Loango Coast.” The featured map is Regna Congo et Angola published in 1700 by Gerard Valck and Petrus Pieter Schenck.
You can read the article here: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/kongo/blog/posts/the-path-they-trod

The Gambia: A Cartographic Space
The re-telling of Roots on the History Channel this summer reminds us to read more of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize winning book from 1976, and beckons us to visualize West Africa’s place in history. Our current online exhibit allows multiple pan and zoom views involving 30 of the rarest maps from 1500-1900 depicting the original Gambia River in the early Mandinka land over a period of 400 years.