An Image of Northwest Yorùbáland during World War II

What is it about?

During the Second World War an air reinforcement route passed through West Africa to Northeast Africa. In the early 1940s the United States came on the air supply route in support of the British war effort and undertook a cartographic knowledge production of the reinforcement route. Hence, this paper explores a United States military map of Western Africa, used during the Second World War, focusing on Northwest Yorubaland. This paper contends that these military maps convey ideological connotations in the reproduced African landscapes.

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