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Section sizes Section size for Africa (50 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 25,249 25,249 Etymology 9,664 9,664 History 287 72,788 Prehistory 6,006 6,006 Emergence of civilization 11,213 11,213 4th millenium BC – 6th century AD 124 29,126 Northeast Africa 6,769 6,769 Horn of Africa 4,767 4,767 Northwest Africa 4,913 4,913 West Africa 7,686 7,686 Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa 4,867 4,867 Ninth to 18th centuries 6,603 6,603 Height of the slave trade 4,410 4,410 Colonialism 125 125 Independence struggles 2,992 2,992 Post-colonial Africa 12,026 12,026 Geology, geography, ecology, and environment 2,449 8,272 African plate 256 256 Climate 2,076 2,076 Climate change 76 76 Ecology and biodiversity 2,410 2,410 Fauna 909 909 Environmental issues 96 96 Infrastructure 22 2,304 Water resources 2,282 2,282 Politics 76 3,688 African Union 3,436 3,436 Boundary conflicts 176 176 Economy 15,861 16,734 Electricity generation 873 873 Demographics 15,605 33,221 Alternative Estimates of African Population, 1–2018 AD (in thousands) 1,958 1,958 Shares of Africa and World Population, 1–2020 AD (% of world total) 1,599 1,599 Religion 3,541 3,541 Languages 6,253 6,253 Health 4,265 4,265 Culture 5,343 9,993 Visual art 427 427 Architecture 78 78 Cinema 65 65 Music 55 55 Dance 61 61 Sports 3,964 3,964 Territories and regions 25,900 25,900 See also 161 161 Notes 24 24 References 28 1,669 Sources 1,641 1,641 Further reading 1,667 1,667 External links 1,076 1,076 Total 212,410 212,410

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Shouldn't Cape Verde be Cabo Verde and Ivory Coast be Côte d'Ivoire 116.250.153.233 (talk) 12:00, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the GIF seen in the first section of this article because it seemed arbitrary. Why do we need a spinning globe to show Africa's size compared to other continents, instead of showing a static map in itself? (which is already there.) @Generalrelative reverted my edit, saying that this specific GIF was "obviously relevant". I do not think that this GIF is a "great wrong" by any stretch; it only seems arbitrary, random, and unusual for an article about a continent. Zilch-nada (talk) 00:16, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My impression is that it is encyclopedic and valuable to lay readers curious to learn basic facts about Africa, which is presumably the majority of readers who come to this article. Just telling them how large Africa is may not be as effective as showing them. Generalrelative (talk) 01:17, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Most map projections don't give a good impression of the size of Africa compared to other continents (the Peters projection sort of does, but it has its own problems with distortion) Watercyclist (talk) 14:34, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am surprised this article uses so many excerpts. I do like excerpts but they should only be used if they transcribe content from high quality articles. E.g. I think the article Water in Africa does not deserve to be transcribed here. See talk page discussion there. In any case, the heading would have to be changed to "water resources", right? Or is it supposed to include the whole theme of WASH in Africa as well? EMsmile (talk) 14:27, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am currently looking at the section on "infrastructure" and think it should be built up. Then I find a very similar section on infrastructure in the article sub-Saharan Africa which could equally be used here (as it's not specific to just SSA). Should we make use of it by using an excerpt? Or move it to here and then link to it from the other page. There is also overlap between the Africa article and the sub-Saharan Africa in some of the other sections. Does anyone have an interest to investigate this together and to reduce overlap where possible? EMsmile (talk) 11:48, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why consider Zanzibar a dependency, when it entered union with Tanzania? I mean thats what the "zan" is for in the name. It has a very different history and status than for example the Spanish territories on mainland Africa. Zanzibar has some autonomy within Tanzania, but so do Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli in Comoros. Babakathy (talk) 08:26, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your view is welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the ‘Sport’ section, there is a map of all of the countries to have competed in the World Cup and their best placement. However, the map still has Morrocco’s best performance listed as a quarter final. In the 2022 Qatar World Cup, they reached the semi-finals, meaning that this map is inaccurate. Could somebody please fix this? Ebrady19 (talk) 16:28, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@M.Bitton I'd like to discuss the Alkebulan question. I think that it's mainstream enough to include, as it's widely used as a term and even an adopted name in Afrocentric circles, and it gets frequently repeated. I think it's important for Wikipedia to address the subject, or we leave the space open to blogs simply echoing each other without any serious engagement with sources, or lack thereof. Perhaps it would go better on another page. I'm open suggestions. Catjacket (talk) 17:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Catjacket: how about adding it to Afrocentrism?M.Bitton (talk) 17:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are people okay if I have a go at rewriting the history section? I've contributed to the Ancient section at History of Africa and I'm currently writing the post-classical and precolonial sections. For now I only want to summarise the Ancient period by merging Emergence of civilisation and Early civilisations and give a cursory view of the whole continent, whilst linking the relevant regional/periodical pages and country pages. If this is okay, obviously anyone is welcome to help and edit or add to anything I put Alexanderkowal (talk) 09:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Khaliif Jaamac b @ 154.115.220.199 (talk) 11:00, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Idk what that means Alexanderkowal (talk) 11:07, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RickySarzus I was thinking it might be better to choose an image of a sculpture, as that seems more representative of African art. I personally like the leopard one? Idk Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:33, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:45, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The leopard one is a Benin bronze Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The first one is also good in my opinion RickySarzus (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I wanted to add it but didn’t know where to put it Alexanderkowal (talk) 23:12, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Crimsonalfred2022 likes

Personally an image from one of the Congo wars since they are termed the African world wars, like

Please add below if anyone has any other proposals Alexanderkowal (talk) 18:04, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Parts of speech Aisha Haruna Koko (talk) 15:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]