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Section size for Africa (45 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	22,278	22,278
Etymology	9,609	9,609
History	175	52,333
Prehistory	6,045	6,045
Emergence of civilization	10,979	10,979
Early civilizations	9,353	9,353
Ninth to eighteenth centuries	6,607	6,607
Height of the slave trade	4,397	4,397
Colonialism	205	205
Independence struggles	2,740	2,740
Post-colonial Africa	11,832	11,832
Geology, geography, ecology, and environment	2,452	8,269
African plate	256	256
Climate	2,076	2,076
Climate change	76	76
Ecology and biodiversity	2,410	2,410
Fauna	903	903
Environmental issues	96	96
Infrastructure	22	2,080
Water resources	2,058	2,058
Politics	76	3,684
African Union	3,436	3,436
Boundary conflicts	172	172
Economy	14,896	15,755
Electricity generation	859	859
Demographics	15,384	31,501
Alternative Estimates of African Population, 0–2018 AD (in thousands)	1,801	1,801
Shares of Africa and World Population, 0–2020 AD (% of world total)	1,349	1,349
Religion	3,226	3,226
Languages	5,464	5,464
Health	4,277	4,277
Culture	5,209	9,480
Visual art	219	219
Architecture	78	78
Cinema	65	65
Music	55	55
Dance	61	61
Sports	3,793	3,793
Territories and regions	25,637	25,637
See also	161	161
Notes	24	24
References	28	1,430
Sources	1,402	1,402
Further reading	1,667	1,667
External links	1,076	1,076
Total	184,984	184,984

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Population size has changed[edit]

The population size has not been updated since 2021. Please update to current population. Thank you.

WikiAmerican1 (talk) 02:51, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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In the second paragraph, please add that Africa shares the landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Europe and Asia. 2600:100C:A205:743B:616D:417A:2C83:B014 (talk) 21:00, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 14:24, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a reliable source.[1] 2600:100C:A205:743B:2D9D:ADF9:FE0E:58A3 (talk) 22:10, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: Please be more precise and clearer on where and what you want to changes to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 12:36, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Names[edit]

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]

Arbitrary GIF inclusion[edit]

The size of Africa compared to the other continents

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]

Too many excerpts?[edit]

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]

Infrastructure section?[edit]

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]

Dependencies[edit]

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]

Talk:Simon_Ekpa#Calling_Ekpa_Prime_Minister_in_wiki-voice[edit]

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