The Conversation published on 24 September 2026 a commentary titled "Maps Can Be Misleading--On Purpose--and Their Story Becomes History. The Case of Ethiopia" by Daniel Waktola.
The author explains how maps on Ethiopian social media and in school textbooks inflated boundaries and engaged in outright disinformation, a practice known as maptivism. These inaccurate maps then become evidence about who belongs where, who governs where, and who owns what.
