Talk:Africa

Names
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)

Arbitrary GIF inclusion
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)


 * 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)
 * 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)

Too many excerpts?
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)

Infrastructure section?
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)

Dependencies
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)

Talk:Simon_Ekpa
Your view is welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

World Cup map
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)

Alkebulan
@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)


 * how about adding it to Afrocentrism? M.Bitton (talk) 17:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

History section
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)

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


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

Art image
@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)


 * Brooklyn Museum 61.33 Ndop Portrait of King Mishe miShyaang maMbul (5).jpgQueen Mother Pendant Mask- Iyoba MET DP231460.jpg Benin bronze in Bristol Museum.jpg Aliança Underground Museum-African art (17).JPG Benin Bronze (26501223765).jpg Mali, jenne, figura incurvata, xv-xviii secolo.jpg Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:45, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The leopard one is a Benin bronze Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The first one is also good in my opinion RickySarzus (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Agreed, I wanted to add it but didn’t know where to put it Alexanderkowal (talk) 23:12, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Postcolonial image
@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)

English studies
Parts of speech Aisha Haruna Koko (talk) 15:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)