Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 6

Channel O Music Video Awards [2012]
I work for Don't Look Down - we are producing the 2012 Music Video Awards for DStv's Channel O.

I'd like to update this page with nominees and other relevant information I have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_O_Music_Video_Awards

Would that be OK?

Rory-DLD (talk) 11:12, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi Rory, generally Wikipedia discourages conflict-of-interest contributing (click on that link for details). That said, I can't imagine anyone objecting to your just listing the nominees and winners of the awards, assuming you provide reliable secondary sources. (Listing the nominees for every category will probably make the main award article over-lengthy, but you might see how the Grammy articles or something do this for a precedent.) Khazar2 (talk) 11:36, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi Khazar2, Thank you! I guessed that having a potential COI means that I should ask first. :) Hopefully this link will be a reliable secondary source: http://channelo.dstv.com/2012/09/chomva-codes-for-voting/

Yes, I should probably put this on a seperate page for 2012 CHOMVA? (would avoid making the main award article over-lengthy): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012_Channel_O_Music_Video_Awards

Again, sorry for all the questions -- this is Wikipedia and I know that one has to get it right or the edits will disappear. :) Rory-DLD (talk) 14:40, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't be sorry, you're quite right to ask! It's hard for me to tell if the awards are notable enough to need their own page--are you fairly confident that enough secondary sources (at least a few newspapers, etc.) will report on the awards to justify a standalone article? If so, I'd say go ahead.
 * But I wouldn't worry about COI for just putting up the nominees and winners. On the contrary, you'd be doing us a big favor--thanks for the contribution, Khazar2 (talk) 15:15, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Right, for practice I have added the CHOMVA 2011 winners to the main page, and added a reference. Rory-DLD (talk) 13:01, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Energy in Africa
Hello, I am a new contributor to Wikipedia, and am going to work on updating and expanding the Energy in Africa and Energy Policy of Africa articles for a class project. These are not currently listed on the Wikiproject Africa page, although I think they would be a good fit. I am going to add new energy usage statistics from the International Energy Agency and expand information about the different energy resources available across the continent in the Energy in Africa article. In the policy article, I plan to use sources from the UN, World Bank, European Union Joint Research Commission, and Science Direct journal to present an overview of energy initiatives across the continent and how those initiatives have effected the citizens of Africa. Do you have any advice for me in this endeavor? How do you think these articles should best link to the individual country articles, or do you think that this information would be redundant? Thank you for your help. matt.9.johnson (talk) 17:50, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the project! I responded at Talk:Energy in Africa. Khazar2 (talk) 21:27, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

"chopping block" or "butcher block"
Which is the more common term in African nations? I'm referring to the hunk of wood known at enwp as a butcher block. Is "cutting board" the right term? Are they all the same? I'm trying to figure if it should be called "chopping block", and Google isn't providing conclusive information.

See: Talk:Butcher block

Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:25, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the most common phrase used in English-speaking parts of Africa? Most of South Africa, for instance. Most Africans are not native anglophones. bobrayner (talk) 15:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I mean all those on the continent who speak English, but particularly those where English is the official language.. I just checked out Languages of Africa, and people all over the place speak English. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 15:32, 5 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Particularly when it comes to names of everyday objects, I would expect there can be many different answers, depending on which foreigners influenced the particular place: Nigeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe will probably follow British usage; Côte d'Ivoire, Sénégal, the DRC (fka Zaire), the Congo, Madagascar, etc. will follow the English spoken in France and Belgium; South Africa will follow the English spoken in the Netherlands; North African countries will follow various Arab and Asian influences; almost nobody will follow American English :); etc. Africa is as varied a continent as Europe or Asia. I'd say "butcher&#91;'s&#93; block" and "chopping block" are the same to me (though the latter is better in that it is more descriptive, IMO) and much bigger than a "cutting board" (which fits in a dishwasher). —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 21:31, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Wolof speakers
Do we have any Wolof speakers?

I want help with File:AfficheWolofDakar.jpg WhisperToMe (talk) 03:26, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Unfamiliar location in Cameroon
I was just looking over the article on Paul Pondi, a Cameroonian diplomat. It says he was born in Ngog Bassong. Is it possible this is a misspelling, or is this just a very small place...? I would like to fix the red link if I can. Keihatsu (talk) 03:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, there's a Ngok Bassong. You can find it on Bing Maps - Map Francis Hannaway (talk) 20:00, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

WikiAfrica request
Hi, I updated the list for the task presented up above, there are many new images waiting for Wikipedia articles to host them. Who's willing to help? --Elitre (talk) 13:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I can work at this off and on the next few days. As with last time, the bulk of these are a bit too general in their labels ("Cape Town", "Zanzibar", "Serengeti", etc.) to be easily matched with articles, but the species pictures are a big help. I've just started work on matching all those beetle pictures to articles and I've put in more than a dozen already. Thanks for calling attention to these again, -- Khazar2 (talk) 15:20, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for being there every time! I think that the new pictures from the institutions are easier to match for knowledgeable users as many have descriptions. I tried with this for instance but was not succesful. --Elitre (talk) 16:49, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * My pleasure. I'm in bed with a cold at the moment, so sorting through all these gorgeous beetle pics is a pleasant way to pass the day. If you're still collecting case studies, you can check out my user contributions for the day to see what I've included; I'd estimate I've added 40-50 images to beetle articles by now, but I could be overestimating. (Almost all these will have the word "image" in the edit summary). I also pinged WP:WikiProject Insects to see if anyone there wanted to try to include the ones I hadn't found a home for yet. -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:44, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) I would actually prioritize the other categories, but you decide :) And yes, when I write a case study, I usually explicitly mention people who helped, and will let you know, of course. --Elitre (talk) 04:49, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Rename to Carthaginian Empire
Ancient Carthage → Carthaginian Empire – Following the previous discussion in 2008, there was no consensus on renaming the article Ancient Carthage, though an alternative was made to make this article named Carthaginian Empire, in order to distinguish from Carthage city (existing both in ancient and modern times). Please vote your opinion on this at Talk:Ancient Carthage.Greyshark09 (talk) 22:55, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move, Ivory Coast or 'the Ivory Coast'
Please see Talk:Rugby union in the Ivory Coast for a discussion on whether article and category names should include "the" before "Ivory Coast" as part of the country name. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:34, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for Simple French Wikipedia, partly intended for Francophone Africa
To those of you in this project, I wrote a proposal for the Simple French Wikipedia: One audience I have in mind are residents of officially Francophone countries who are having difficulties in learning French
 * meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia French Simple (2)

Should I copy this proposal to all of the Francophone country Wikiprojects in Africa too? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:09, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Trauma in Agbarho
What happened in Agbarho yesterday (1-11-2012) was unprecedentd. A group of young boys were playing cards in an uncompleted building when some members of the task force of Agbarho community invaded the building. They started shooting at random & in the process killed the twin brother of one of the boys playing cards in the building, while the other boys escaped. Realising they've killed someone, the task force took to their heels. The elder brother of the deceased who is a butcher pursued the task force & caught one of them. He bundled him to a popular junction at Agbarho known as( five junction) & slaughtered him in bits. He removed his head & hung it on a stick, cut away his hands & legs & divided it all over the junction. The awful thing was that he cut away his private parts, ate them raw, watered it down with alcohol, after which he set him ablaze. On arrival of the army, the man took to his heels. The army started shooting at him but the bullets were unable to penetrate due to some charms he had all over him. The stray bullets killed about 4 people while others injured were taken to the hospital for treatment. Although there were mixed feelings about the ordeal, the maJority was joyful for what happened to the task force, due to their (task force) appalling activities in the town. (Ajokpeoghene (talk) 17:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC))
 * Is that related to this? Is there an article which you'd like to update? bobrayner (talk) 23:47, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

rwandan refugees return home, 1996 (History of Rwanda)
http://www.fao.org/NEWS/GLOBAL/GW9716-e.htm (dated 24 July 1997) title: "Rwandan refugees' return home puts heavy strain on limited food resources" by "The Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations"

specifically quoted from above: "Between June 1996 and June 1997, almost all of the nearly 2 million refugees who had fled to neighbouring countries to escape civil strife returned to Rwanda"

This began in June of 1996 when "unarmed cargo aircraft under United Nations supervision" were allowed by Zaire to "airdrop food and supplies without landing" along the road from the main camp in Zaire to the Rwandan border, thereby allowing most of the refugees there to "walk home without incident" since Zaire would not allow foreign troops on their soil to move them, nor did Zaire have the resources to move them themselves. The number of returning refugees for the first 30 days of the operation was reported as "approximately 970,000" in American news media, with "about 340,000 remaining in the camp" at that time.

Youjaes (talk) 14:04, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Residence wanted in Cameroon and South Africa
WikiAfrica is seeking Wikipedians in Residence! One to work in Cameroon and one in South Africa. Please visit their blog to learn more. SarahStierch (talk) 18:43, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Portal:Geography at portal peer review
Portal:Geography is now up for portal peer review, the review page is at Portal peer review/Geography/archive1. I've put a bit of effort into this as part of a featured portal drive related to portals linked from the top-right corner of the Main Page, and feedback would be appreciated prior to featured portal candidacy. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

image map
Template:Africa countries imagemap of main article fame is messed to the point of uselessness. It looks pretty hard to fix, but please. trespassers william (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Consistancy on two pages
On page Operation Linda Nchi & List of wars 2011–present. Marasama (talk) 18:36, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Operation Linda Nchi = has a US flag, and states French involvement, but the infobox only shows US flag and no French flag.
 * List of wars 2011-present = has no US flag in the list.
 * I'd suggest posting to the talk pages of those articles, or just going ahead and making the change yourself. Good catch! -- Khazar2 (talk) 18:43, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. Marasama (talk) 20:41, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Changing page name
Hi I was wondering if this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesothan_literature) could get a title change since the word "Lesothan" does not exist? The proper name for people from Lesotho is "Mosotho" for the singular and "Basotho" for the plural. I did not see a place to change the title, but "Basotho Literature" would be the correct title (or "Sesotho Literature" if you wanted to refer to the culture instead of the people). Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.123.124.4 (talk) 20:40, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Changed to Lesotho literature. Thought about the alternatives, and went with the easiest new title.  Hope that works. If not, start a new section at Talk:Lesotho literature to discuss it. AbstractIllusions (talk) 20:36, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Gough Island
This article is on my watchlist, but I am not an expert. Please could editors note concerns at Talk:Gough Island and determine whether my concerns are valid? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 18:54, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

List of new articles
Hi, please where we can found the list of new articles? Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 09:02, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

The Ethiopia WikiProject Redesign
The Ethiopia WikiProject has gone through a complete redesign and restart. Come check us out and please join and contribute. We need a lot of help and welcome all contributors.

Thanks, አቤል ዳዊት (talk) 10:19, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe, an article that your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 14:34, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Auto archiver
Due to the increasing length of this page (80 threads!), I've added an autoarchiver to the top. If anyone objects, of course, please feel free to remove and we can discuss. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:51, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Salaamu 'alaikum. I only want to suggest that you enquire into the 1970th historic inter marriage between Nana Ajaram, a daughter of the Shehu of Borno(the late Shehu Umar ibn Abubakar Garbai EL AMIN EL KANEMI)of Maiduguri, Nigeria and the Khalifa/Sultan (died 2009/10) of Mao, Chad. This marriage symbolized a renisence of the relationship between the Kanuri (ORIGINALLY KAL NURI meaning "like light, people who were lightened by the Prophet s.a.w. without seing him") people of Borno, Nigeria and, their relatives, the Kanumbu people of Chad. Please also verify the historic fact that the KAL NURI (Kanuri), under the Mai(deputised by the Mainin Kinandi), ruled from Darfur in Sudan to Kano in Nigeria during the KANEM BORNO EMPIRE/SEFAWA DYNASTY (the longest unbroken dynasty in the world/over 1000 years) through whom Islam came to the area now called Nigeria. Please verify for more advancement of Wikipedia. Barrister(Shettima of Borno)Muhammad Bashir Alkali(PhD Sharia candidate) of Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya,Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia. Tel. +60146757383  Email: mbashiralkali@yahoo.com. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.184.111.68 (talk) 07:59, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject African diaspora
I propose the removal of WikiProject African diaspora link from the lede. WikiProject African diaspora does not mention or put any emphasis on this project and has a different topic. WikiProject African diaspora's topic is the cultural contributions of people of African descent in places outside Africa. In contrast WikiProject Africa's topic is Africa itself. 69.121.246.232 (talk) 01:47, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose The mention in the lead is to make clear the distinction between the different projects. Hence, your argument is exactly the reason to keep the brief mention. Happy New Year all. AbstractIllusions (talk) 03:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Ghana related articles
A part of Ghana is slowly disappearing from articles and being renamed Akanland. See the edits by and the discussion at WP:BLPN. Dougweller (talk) 17:35, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Doug, as Mark has pointed out many many times, the only true citizens of Ghana are the Akan and the Ga, and the only true religion is Christianity. All the rest, such as the Ewe, Dagomba, and Fulani, are illegal immigrants and criminals, and the country urgently needs to be cleansed. (See for example the edit history of the Ghana article from last March and April.) I myself am investing in a barbed-wire export company for the day when Ghana is returned to its rightful owners.


 * Seriously, Mark tried converting the Ghana article to Akanland back in March–April. I used to revert him on sight, as reviewing his ludicrous edits was generally a waste of time and there was almost never anything of value in them. He's simply a bigot. I suspect that since he can't get his way with the Ghana article, he's switched to the Akanland article as a substitute. See also above.


 * He even moved Princes Town, Ghana to Princes Town (town) with the edit summary 'universal'! I'm going through his recent contribution history and reverting everything that's still there. — kwami (talk) 18:07, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * It appears the issue has moved to ANI for primary discussion if anyone has comments. AbstractIllusions (talk) 20:11, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * He's been banned and has apparently left WP. Many of the articles can be found by what links to Akanland, Country data Akanland, and Akanland-geo-stub. — kwami (talk) 22:57, 1 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know if Category:Akan-language surnames is legitimate? MarkMysoe spent a lot of time populating it, none of them are referenced, and in light of recent events I'm curious to know if they are genuinely "Akan" surnames. &mdash;Xezbeth (talk) 21:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * In a normal situation it would be appropriate to remove categories from articles if they're not supported by the sources; especially if it relates to living people.
 * If the categories were added as part of a campaign of tendentious editing... that further removes any assumption that the categories might have been OK. bobrayner (talk) 01:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Afrikaans in infobox
At the moment the Afrikaans name is listed in the infobox for the tournaments of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and also of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However there are 11 official Languages of South Africa. The infobox should either have all 11 offical languages, or only English. Afrikaans should not receive special treatment. Best regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 16:45, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd suggest raising this issue on the talk pages of those articles if you haven't yet. Thanks for noticing it. -- Khazar2 (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It has already been done, you can see here and here. Regards. --Fayçal.09 (talk) 17:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Coup leaders in officeholder categories?
I'd like to put Nicholas Podier in some sort of officeholder category, because as co-chairman of the People's Redemption Council, he was officially vice-head of state for Liberia for a time. However, I notice that Vice-President of Liberia and Category:Vice-Presidents of Liberia only have room for people who had the title of Vice-President, and there was no president nor vice-president in Liberia for several years after the coup. Is there precedent on what to do with coup leaders who de-facto hold certain positions without claiming the titles of those positions? Nyttend (talk) 21:29, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It has a precedent. Vice President of Sierra Leone does that with Sankoh, even though he didn't hold the position "Vice President" until later, and the Title column is really good at showing that. Lists of Heads of State also include coup leaders across the board, regardless of their actual title (for a non-African example, see President of El Salvador, for an African example, see List of heads of state of Togo with Bodjolle and Dadjo included). In terms of Category, although Paul-Émile de Souza was never the "President" of Benin, he has that category attached and has had it since the article was created. I think as long as there is a Title column or notes column where it can be clearly stated and that the actual title held by the person is clearly made in the lead of there personal article and there isn't an attempt to change the person's title at any point, it is following the norm on most other pages and only improves the content of that page. Hope that helps. AbstractIllusions (talk) 22:10, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Requested move for Congo

 * (Discuss) – Republic of the Congo → Congo-Brazzaville Kauffner (talk) 03:30, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Akan & akan-stub
Now that WP:WikiProject Akan and Akan-stub hierarchy have been deleted as a POV-soapbox for blocked, there may be a need for cleanup of whatever MarkMysoe touched to emphasize WPAKAN over all other projects (WPGhana, WP Ivory Coast, WPAfrica) if previous attempts at cleanup missed anything. -- 76.65.128.43 (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Isle de France
See Talk:Isle de France and Talk:Governor of Isle de France for the discussion of the usurpation of a longstanding redirect to a different topic in France by a recently created article on Africa. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:13, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Geography for featured portal consideration
I've nominated Portal:Geography for featured portal candidacy, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Geography. Thank you for your time, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * '''Geography

African dance
Hiya, I've cross-listed this to WikiProject Dance -- I am involved in the African dance community in New York City and am interested in improving on, linking, building, and otherwise adding to pages about African dances, teachers, dance companies, etc. Looking for others to collaborate with. Does anyone have suggestions of where to start? Gus andrews (talk) 04:05, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Gus, that sounds like a terrific goal. My suggestion would be to start with an article with a very defined scope, such as a particular artist or company (checking first that they meet Wikipedia's basic notability guideline, detailed coverage in multiple reliable sources). Gather the major sources you can find on that person/company, and then try to summarize them into a coherent whole, giving greater article space to topics or events that are discussed in more sources or in more detail. You can use the same approach for specific dances, too, but sometimes that's more difficult to assemble logically than someone's biography, which is easily sorted by chronology or by topic.
 * As someone who's involved in this community yourself, there are two things you may want to watch out for. First, you don't want your articles on any artist to be promotional in tone, in keeping with Wikipedia's policies on WP:NPOV; try to stick to facts, clearly source all opinions, and make sure to include a proportional share of negative reviews as well as positive ones, any notable controversies, etc. Second, if you're considering writing about any groups you yourself have worked with, take a look at our guidelines on conflict-of-interest (COI); this is a tricky area of editing, but as long as you're open about your COI, your edits would still be a great help.
 * I'm not knowledgeable enough about African dance to pitch in directly, but you're welcome to leave a note at my talk page any time you'd like feedback or advice. I'd be glad to look over any revisions you make or new articles you create for a bit, too, if that would be helpful. Just let me know. Hope this helps, and good luck with your edits! -- Khazar2 (talk) 08:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Swaziland ambassador information out of date
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Swaziland

This page needs to be updated. Ambassador Makila James has been in place since fall 2012. Earl Irving is no longer the incumbent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.129.98.130 (talk) 21:48, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ Fixed. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. If you find other problems like this, please feel empowered to edit them and improve the project. AbstractIllusions (talk) 23:03, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yep, thanks for pointing it out, and thanks for grabbing this one, Abstract... -- Khazar2 (talk) 23:52, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Page move discussions related to Malian history
I've proposed reverting the articles on Seku Amadu II and Seku Amadu III to their previous names of Amadu Seku and Amadu Amadu. They are articles on rulers of the mid-19th century Massina Empire. See the talk pages.--A12n (talk) 19:22, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

AfDs on 2 Nairobi governor candidate stubs
The first is Richard Kavemba Mutinda. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:41, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Women in Liberia
I am in the process of writing an article on Women in Liberia for my Gender and Economic Development course at University. The paper will cover Liberia’s civil war, Women’s role in Politics, Women's Rights, Women’s health issues, gender inequalities and family code. I am looking for any feedback the wiki community might offer; all responses will be taken into consideration while writing this paper. In particular, if you are aware of any relevant articles/sources please share.

Javaman1145 (talk) 02:11, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Gender Inequality in Sudan
I am also working on a project for my class at the University of Utah where I am creating a new page on Gender Inequality in Sudan/Women in Sudan. I will be focusing on the economic development and gender disparity issues. As part of the WikiProkect Africa, there is call for "Women in" pages and this would fulfill the need for the "Women in Sudan" page. If you have any advice or information for me to help make this page more comprehensive I would greatly appreciate it! Jumpinjad (talk) 03:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

New 'Women in the Arab Spring' article
I'm planning on writing a new 'Women in the Arab Spring' article as part of my Poverty, Gender and Human Development course at Rice University. I will add the page to this WikiProject because the Arab Spring represents a major change in certain parts of Africa. The topic of women in the Arab Spring is not currently discussed in the Arab Spring article or anywhere else on Wikipedia. I plan to cover the role of women before, during, and after the Arab Spring with my article (see the Arab Spring talk page for details) and would greatly appreciate any feedback on my plans. Thanks! Nadhika99 (talk) 06:48, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Specifying prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in Africa by country on the FGM page
Hello everyone, my name is Natasha and I am a student at Rice University hoping to add some parts to the already existing page on Female Genital Mutilation. I noticed as I was looking through the page that there is a section on FGM in Africa, but I don't think it's fair to categorize all of Africa into one small section in this page, especially since the prevalence of FGM is so different across different countries within Africa. Thus, I plan to make some additions to the page by focusing on why FGM is more prevalent in certain parts of Africa over other parts. I still am not sure which parts I will focus in on, but I am definitely open to whatever suggestions any of you may have for this idea, or even if any have advice on how to make this most effective. At first I though to make a separate page and break down FGM more specifically in parts of Africa, but I am afraid that doing so will simply cause me to be redundant in terms of the information on FGM and its implications. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know. Thank you!

Natashacruz12 (talk) 22:39, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Awka-Etiti
Hi all. I recently created and am developing the article Awka-Etiti. Online sources are few. I would be grateful for independent assessment and ideas for further development. Thanks.Ochiwar (talk) 12:30, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

FAR
I have nominated Kingdom of Makuria for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Dana boomer (talk) 15:17, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Should the French name of Algeria be listed in the lead section?
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Algeria on a debate about it. I have contributed heavily to Languages of Algeria which discusses the language situation in Algeria. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Cameroon FAR
I have nominated Cameroon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --FutureTrillionaire (talk) 00:04, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Fixed several errors for the Northwest Region (Cameroon) page
Just letting you all know that I reviewed the entire page and fixed several punctuation and syntax errors, missing punctuation, and some awkward wording here and there.

If any of you have the time, you can review my changes and fix anything you might disagree with.

Here's the link: [|Cameroon]

The discredited Hamitic race theory postulated that art and architecture found in Africa must have been created by — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.45.176.167 (talk) 03:59, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

AfC template
Could anyone review this submission? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:15, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Guaranty Trust Bank
I am not involved, nor I have the time or expertise in the subject, therefore I thought I'd bring this up here before hoping to ANI, so someone knowledgeable in both African companies and the rules of Wikipedia can oversee and instruct the editor(s). There seems to be a lot of COI editing, promotional, unsourced on this company. Lots of purported awards received but no sources. Recently they have added a whole unsourced list of officials of the company. Besides being too much information, we do not want to infringe on BLP. I want to avert an edit war and taking administrative action as the company seems notable, just too much fluff and too many unsourced assertions. Any help appreciated. -- Alexf(talk) 12:58, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Alexf, I think you did the right thing in tagging the article as you did. I'd say give it a few more weeks and if secondary-source citations aren't provided, ruthlessly delete any uncited material. If that does turn into an edit war, feel free to ping me directly and I'll take a look too. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:06, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Please watchlist and we'll see. I am inclined to deleted the whole list of officials (again) and request more sourcing for awards. -- Alexf(talk) 13:12, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Paul Kagame FAC
Just in case anyone missed it and it interested, the article about Rwandan President Paul Kagame is currently up for Featured Article candidature. I've had two full reviews so far (one of which is still in progress), and it's generally looking positive, but it would be useful to get more pairs of eyes on it and further feedback. The FAC page is at WP:Featured article candidates/Paul_Kagame/archive1. Many thanks! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks to you for getting this to FAC! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:35, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

French in Algeria Part 2
There is a new topic on the NPOV noticeboard about French in Algeria: Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard WhisperToMe (talk) 00:41, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Rape during the liberation of France

 * Section determined to violate WP:CANVAS and user responsible currently blocked. Eh doesn&#39;t afraid of anyone (talk) 05:05, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

There is a page Rape during the liberation of France, which mentions descrimination against African American soldiers. But some people want to hide historical shame articles. Need some opinions. See Talk:Rape during the liberation of France.--Syngmung (talk) 05:37, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You've brought up an interesting topic. However, I can't see how it fits onto this page. This page is about topics related to Africa. The article you've mentioned is to do with American citizens who are black, in the context of discrimination against those citizens. Francis Hannaway (talk) 10:27, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Francis, this user has been engaging in a SYNTH/POV campaign of inserting references to South Korean prostitution in numerous articles about rape, and inserting references to those articles about rape into numerous articles that are not about rape. For more information, please see the other FIVE WikiProjects Syngmung canvassed over a 10-minute period. Please just ignore him/her. Eh doesn&#39;t afraid of anyone (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Syngmung, please see WP:CANVAS. Also, what does this have to do with African diaspora? Inserting links to articles about prostitution in order to promote your own POV that this is the same as rape is not REMOTELY related to Africa. You are going a bit to far in your extensive campaign of canvassing here...
 * For everyone else: please ignore this person. Xe has been inserting OR (particularly of the SYNTH variety) into numerous articles on rape and other almost entirely unrelated articles (read: adding a paragraph about rape to Invasion of Normandy), and inserting links to completely unrelated articles about prostitution in South Korea. These edits are at the very best highly offensive and inappropriate. Cheers!
 * Eh doesn&#39;t afraid of anyone (talk) 13:30, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
 * What is the OR? Sourced contents. Eh doesn't afraid of anyone, the SPA comments are filled with OR without reliable sources.--Syngmung (talk) 14:02, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Bernadette Rebienot at Articles for Deletion
Bernadette Rebienot of Gabon (the woman who said, "In Gabon, when the grandmothers speak, the president listens ..." ) is at Articles for Deletion. Djembayz (talk) 03:01, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

RedSea.jpg
image:RedSea.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:45, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

"Gabz"
The usage of is up for discussion, see talk:Gabz (singer) -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 23:08, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Proposed move of Anglo-African to British in Africa
See Talk:Anglo-African. Helen (talk) 11:11, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Swamap.jpg
file:Swamap.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 03:48, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

GAR
--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 00:52, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Update required
The current minister on foreign affairs is mohamed abdulaziz. You may wish to update the text, as the minstry was merged with the ministry on international cooperation. Regards, ralph krech — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.230.233.71 (talk) 21:15, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. I added Mohamed Abdulaziz to the list of foreign affairs ministers at Minister of Foreign Affairs (Libya).  If there are other pages, you can find that need to be updated, please help contribute to the collective effort and hit the edit button and fix it. AbstractIllusions (talk) 00:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Zerai Deres.jpg
image:Zerai Deres.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:44, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

RFC involving LGBT rights in Africa
Members of WikiProject Africa are invited to participate at a Request for Comments concerning material on African countries' obligations under international law to protect LGBT rights. —Psychonaut (talk) 12:02, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Requested Move Dahomey
Editors involved with Wikiproject Africa are invited to contribute opinions and suggestions on a requested move on the Dahomey page, move discussion is at the following link: Talk:Dahomey. Thank you. AbstractIllusions (talk) 18:59, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries of North Africa
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:27, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

African Union languages
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 06:02, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of North Africa
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:19, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of the Mediterranean Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:46, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Red Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 10:57, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Arabian Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:04, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:07, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

African Union
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:11, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Southern African Development Community
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Several African international organization templates are up for deletion
See Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_30 where these are mass-nominated -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:43, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * also Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_31 -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 02:12, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Mandinka
I have put in a request to have Mandingo (person) restored to its former place at Mandingo (pornographic actor) so that Mandingo (person) can more correctly redirect to Mandinka. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Aberkaruru-falls.jpg
image:Aberkaruru-falls.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 05:36, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Jabiyan
Just noting that added material about the 'Jabiyan' in April. Just found doing the same. So far as I can tell it's a hoax - this says the word means tax collector. I'm cleaning up, just mentioning it if anyone sees it reappear. Dougweller (talk) 18:51, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

It's definitely *not* a hoax. I've seen the Jabiyans mentioned on a couple of sites after just a quick google search. At least one paper mentioned it too. And just because it means "tax collector" doesn't mean it's not a real word with a different meaning, right? So if there's no objections, let's just add it back in.YetiApologist (talk) 23:12, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Energy in Africa Article Addition
I am a current PJHC student at Rice University, and am planning to add to the "Energy in Africa" article as part of a Wikipedia assignment for HUMA 280 (Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities). I am interested in exploring how energy in Africa relates to other factors, such as health, poverty, infrastructure, gender, environment, etc. Therefore, I intend to reorganize the article so that it displays these important and integral relationships in an even clearer way than the article does now. I have performed in-depth research on the possible relationships existent between energy and other factors like those specified above, and plan to list these relationships below each energy-type in order to provide a means for comparison between different renewable energy resources in particular. For instance, I will first explain where wind energy is available in Africa, how it is currently being utilized in these regions, how the wind energy in these regions would affect the health, the quality of life, the capabilities/opportunities of this region's people, etc. Do you have any other ideas regarding how to make the argument that appropriate use of energy could improve many aspects of Africa's current social, economic, and environmental situations most effective? I have proposed a contribution on the "Energy in Africa" talk page and would appreciate your feedback.

Are there any other articles that I could link Energy in Africa to besides Energy Policy in Africa, Renewable Energy in Africa, Energy in the United States, and Energy in the United Kingdom? Thank you! -Caroline CarolineABrigham (talk) 01:53, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission
Mind having a look at this article? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:14, 31 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Have installed the helper script - but I see no "Accept" button that I am supposed to press ? Wizzy&hellip; &#9742; 12:49, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Update University Name/Title and Logo
Hi

I work with Milpark and they are changing their name from "Milpark Business School" to "Milpark Education" Will someone please assist me in changing the name and logo of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Business_School

Logo is found on www.milpark.ac.za

Kindest regards

Brad Conlin — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradmavin (talk • contribs) 09:55, 21 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes I will help you. Helen  Online  10:13, 21 November 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ Helen  Online  10:35, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Brilliant... thank you Helen Is it possible to redirect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Business_School to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Education — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradmavin (talk • contribs) 08:12, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * That happened automatically when I moved the page to the new name. Helen  Online  08:32, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Strange, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Business_School still exists and I'm not being sent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Education — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradmavin (talk • contribs) 11:38, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Can you try refresh your browser (press F5)? Helen  Online  11:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I've tried refreshing and i've tried accessing the page from a different PC and browser but still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpark_Business_School exists (i see copy and logo is updated but now there's 2 identical pages, the business school page and the education page) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradmavin (talk • contribs) 12:26, 22 November 2013 (UTC)


 * It may look like an identical article but if you click on the wikilink in the text "Redirected from Milpark Business School" under the Milpark Education article title, it will take you to the redirect article. Helen  Online  12:47, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Football in Africa (New Page)
New page about african football: --79.6.240.57 (talk) 23:41, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Eritrean Cup
 * Tesfa FC
 * Real Rebola
 * AS Tadjourah
 * AS Tanda
 * Rhino Rangers
 * JKT Mgambo
 * SCOM Mikishi
 * JS Talangaï
 * Komorozine de Domoni
 * Geyser FC
 * Sporting Club de Bangui
 * Academico 83
 * Kumbo Strikers FC
 * Flambeau de l’Est
 * Sourou Sport de Tougan
 * Wonder Sporting Club
 * Adjobi Football Club
 * Evale FC
 * IRB Sougueur
 * CS Saint-Denis
 * Nyanza FC
 * Zanzibari Cup
 * Juba Diogo Simão
 * Olympique Thiès
 * Côte d'Or FC
 * Al Rabta
 * Triangle United
 * Lime Hotspurs Football Club
 * Anti Drugs Strikers FC
 * Savana FC
 * Mundu Sport Club
 * Mseto Sports
 * Al-Malakia FC
 * Moneni Pirates
 * Sara Sport de Bafilo
 * SC Moknine
 * Entebbe Young Football Club

Discussion regarding renaming Category:African_people_of_Arab_descent and four other categories
You are invited to join the discussion at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_4. __ E L A Q U E A T E  01:08, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Sharia to become basis of Libyan law
Please see In_the_news/Candidates, and help update Law of Libya so it can be placed on the front page. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:58, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Article to improve.
Hello,

I wrote an article on Wikipedia. But there is a permanent message saying that this article is "an orphan article" even though I put some citations. Does someone have an idea about how to improve this article.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lohenge (talk • contribs) 03:34, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Lohenge, the Orphan tag means that no other pages on wikipedia link to that article. Although you certainly want to write great articles, it is also important to make links to that article where appropriate on other wikipedia articles. Right now, no other pages link to the Mooto article, so the Orphan tag is appropriate.  There are lots of pages about the DRC which could use improvement.  A great way to justify removing the Orphan tag is to improve another page and include a link to the Mooto article. Then you can just remove the orphan tag yourself. The other tag--the additional citations needed--should probably remain on the page as many parts lack citation.  Hope that helps.AbstractIllusions (talk) 09:03, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I think maybe you might need a certain amour of citations. How many do you have? - Meapyeah — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.251.120.231 (talk) 04:51, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Quincy Timberlake
I already left a request to review NPOV issues on Quincy Timberlake in WikiProject Kenya, and I'm crossposting here, because I never know how active a WikiProject is. If anyone here can help looking at the POV and soapbox issues on the article, or defer to another active and relevant WikiProject, that would be great. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 10:45, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

finding a job
I'M IN SEARCH OF JOB I AM SIERRA LEONEAN .I ATTENDED NJALA UNIVERSITY BACHALOR OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE(B.S.C) .AND I CAME OUT WITH DIVISION TWO(2).LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR CONVINENCE. TELL# 079121149 or 076951953.078508798 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.215.0.49 (talk) 01:09, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Southeast Africa, Middle Africa, Islands of Africa
Are these regions in Africa so inconsequential that their articles should be a list of countries and any attempt to create an article about them should be deleted wholesale and not edited if there are disagreements on what countries are or aren't included? AcidSnow seems to think the people living in these regions and their histories and cultures and economies are inconsequential and that the world doesn't care about these regions of Africa and any articles about these regions is a waste of time and any effort to expand coverage of these regions should be deleted wholesale. Please see Talk:Southeast Africa"Ok, something should also be done about the Islands of Africa page since there really is no need for this too. What do you think DrLewisphd? AcidSnow (talk) 21:01, 31 December 2013 (UTC) " after discussing the wholesale deletion of an article on "Southeast Africa"-a region with over 140 million people. Or Middle Africa, with 44 million people and one of the most varied and relevant histories in Africa with new exciting archeological findings being discovered every year, including possible ironworking from 3500 B.C. and the only predominately Nilo-Saharan speaking area, all indicating its enormous importance in the development of Africa and understanding inter-African migration history (since much of West Africa may only have been settled after 10,000 B.C.) so just a rich, varied, extremely unique and vastly important region regardless of its population size. So why can't this be discussed and worked through and developed (the coverage of the article, which countries should be included if missing etc.) on the talk page instead of the whole page being deleted? This user seems to be stalking my edits and hoping to run me off of Wikipedia after I have contributed much to Africa articles. I am disconcerted that this blatant attempt at stalking other editors and vandalizing their articles may be allowed, especially when there are not very many editors compared to other regions contributing to Africa articles. I understand if there are disagreements about inclusion of countries in these regions but does that mean any attempt to expand coverage should be deleted? Wouldn't the constructive thing be to add coverage of the arguably missing countries??? If one was actually interested in adding to Wikipedia and not just destroying and vandalizing and intimidating other users who are trying to contribute to Africa articles? Regards, Andajara120000 (talk) 02:43, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

"Draft" rating
I suggest that this wikiproject implement the new "Draft"-class and categorize into Category: Draft-Class Africa articles‎, for pages in the WP:Drafts namespace that was recently initiated. This would allow tracking of articles related to this wikiproject that are in draft form, which members of this wikiproject may wish to improve and move into the mainspace. -- 76.65.128.112 (talk) 01:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Cape Town bid for Wikimania 2015
Hello everyone. I am currently putting together a bid for Cape Town to host Wikimania in 2015. If you would like to see Cape Town get the bid please show your support for it by adding your name in the "Supporters" section at our bid page. Many thanks and all the best for 2014!--Discott (talk) 15:06, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Gqunukhwebe
Hello WikiProject! I stumbled across this article on Gqunukhwebe today and noticed that it has been unreferenced since 2011. I first nominated it for deletion, but then thought it might be best to drop by here and ask if anybody familiar with this subject could possibly find some references. The article appears to be about an ethnic group. I've contacted the article's creator as well to encourage some solid references. Thanks everybody, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 22:12, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Africa East
"", "", "", "" are up for discussion, see the two interrelated discussions at talk:East Africa and talk:Central east Africa.

The meaning of "East Africa" is being discussed, as to the sociopolitical definition, geopolitical definition, geographic definition (ie. East African coast), geologic definition (ie. East African Plate)

-- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 04:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Talk:Bushmen
I have proposed a move/renaming from Bushmen to San people following a clean up and expansion of Bushmen. Please participate in the discussion so we can resolve this long-standing name issue. Helen Online  07:26, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Recent sock puppetry, especially on articles relating to East Africa
Please see Sockpuppet investigations/Johnjohnjames/Archive. There have been recent socks of User:Johnjohnjamesactive on articles relating to East Africa. I have noted myself the misuse of references dealing with genetics, ranging from unreliable sources to using sources to make an argument violating WP:NOR and WP:SYN - sources must specifically discuss the subject of the article (see WP:VRS), but this editor puts together sources to make an argument the way you would do in an essay. Dougweller (talk) 09:50, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks Doug, I was unaware and unwittingly helped one of the socks assuming good faith. Helen  Online  10:29, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Feedback request: VisualEditor special character inserter
The developers are working towards offering mw:VisualEditor to all users at about 50 Wikipedias that have complex language requirements, including some African languages. Many editors at these Wikipedias depend on being able to insert special characters to be able to write articles.

A special character inserter tool is available in VisualEditor now. They would like to know what you think about this tool, especially if you speak languages other than English. To try the tool, please:
 * If you haven't already opted-in, then opt-in to VisualEditor by going to Special:Preferences and choosing "". Save your preferences.
 * Edit any article or your user page in VisualEditor. See the mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide for information on how to use VisualEditor.

To let the developers know what you think, please leave them a message with your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on Mediawiki.org or here at the English Wikipedia at VisualEditor/Feedback. It is really important that the developers hear from as many editors as possible. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:03, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at University of Utah supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2013 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

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