Talk:Africa
This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Africa article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Auto-archiving period: 290 days ![]() |
![]() | This article is written in British English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, travelled, centre, defence, artefact, analyse) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
![]() | This article was on the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive for the week of July 30, 2006. |
![]() | This ![]() It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects. | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
![]() |
|
Arbitrary GIF inclusion
editI 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)
Infrastructure section?
editI 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
editWhy 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)
Your view is welcome. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
World Cup map
editIn 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)
- I've updated that file on Wikimedia, resolving this issue. Tmb720 (talk) 14:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
Alkebulan
edit@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)
- @Catjacket: how about adding it to Afrocentrism? M.Bitton (talk) 17:20, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
History section
editAre 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
edit@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)
- 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)
- The first one is also good in my opinion RickySarzus (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
- The leopard one is a Benin bronze Alexanderkowal (talk) 13:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Postcolonial image
edit@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)
- I think it's distasteful to use an image of the Congo Wars for this section. I would suggest another image from African politics in the post-colonial era. For example, an image of the OAU Organisation of African Unity#/media/File:Nasser at African Summit 1964 Cairo.jpg Mwangi wa Rwathia (talk) 08:24, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
English studies
editParts of speech Aisha Haruna Koko (talk) 15:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 21 July 2024
editThis edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
In the Territories and Regions section, the local name for Togo and Gabon shall be respectively Togo and Gabon, not togolaise and gabonaise. Those are used to designated the inhabitants of the said countries. Glko0 (talk) 10:33, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed Left guide (talk) 10:45, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
Would people be interested in joining a wikiproject on improving and creating articles about oral tradition? Wikipedia's coverage on this appears to be very poor Kowal2701 (talk) 19:30, 23 July 2024 (UTC)