European maps from the 15th to 20th century were used in the conception and transcription of the territorial reorganisation of African states. These maps reveal certain mythic aspects in western colonial shaping of these modem African states and in the ethical discourse that their emergence raises. In Africa, indigenous epic myths express how local people like those of Cameroon have lived with these territorial divisions and how they are still reacting to traditional and modem changes at every level. Thus, the powerful capacity of myths to lead to an interactive use of the geographic complexity and the production of social and political complication is illustrated. Subjected to both moral manipulation and epical expression, territorial reorganisation necessarily leads to ethical and epic myths being used as valuable resources. In fact, the creation of territories needs aspects of fantastic imagination and invites ideological manipulations and their denunciation.