Talk:Africa

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Please add this

2405:6E00:62C:5E8A:622C:10AD:18DF:B683 (talk) 11:17, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Already done - The template is already present in the article. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 13:30, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

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Equatorial Guinea has moved the capital from Malabo to Ciudad de la Paz.--GoombaKoopa (talk) 14:12, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done - I've changed the old to the new capital. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 14:29, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I'm going to be doing a rewriting of the history section at User:Kowal2701/sandbox, moreso as a first draft/placeholder for when History of Africa is done. This article is currently 10,900 words, 5,400 of which are in the History section. I'm going to try to keep it at about 3,000 words if that sounds alright, but it will probably by more like 4,500. Obv everybody is free to edit the draft and input is welcome Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 14:02, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Now the section's at 3,300 words, but I expect when finished it'll be about 5,000, sorry in advance Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 17:48, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

so what I was originally writing ballooned and I instead added it to History of Africa. I've just summarised that here, and the article's at 10,800 which is better than I expected. I'm gonna add a paragraph later today on the 19th century leading up to the Scramble, after that I probably won't touch it for a while Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 14:50, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

now 11,500 words, with the History section around half of that. Sigh Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 00:16, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

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Change the map of the African Union regions in the Politics section (Africa#Politics) from the current .png map to the updated .svg map:

Use the same caption used in Regions of the African Union.

Svg maps are preferable to png maps, and the png map has been replaced by the svg map in other related articles like African Union and Regions of the African Union.

Thank you!

Dragon401k (talk) 00:50, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

 Done {{GearsDatapack|talk|contribs}} 16:22, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

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Please change the style of the section "Genetic history" from Heading (==) to Sub-heading 1 (===), otherwise the next 3 subsections fall under it (Religion, Languages, Health). DxhaFFer (talk) 11:32, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

 Done, thank you. Tbh I think this section is very undue, but cba to deal w it rn Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 11:57, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

The redirect África has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 8 § África until a consensus is reached. 𝔅𝔦𝔰-𝔖𝔢𝔯𝔧𝔢𝔱𝔞? 23:42, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

The population of africa is "1,394 million" instead of billion in the first few sentences of this article but since it's locked, I can't edit it ~2026-30135-14 (talk) 19:04, 19 May 2026 (UTC)

The comma indicates it is intended to be read in the millions, but given the likely confusion I've restored the billions wording. CMD (talk) 04:14, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

The redirect .Africa has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 June 19 § .Africa until a consensus is reached. A1Cafel (talk) 09:52, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

for the etymology you should also mension the ancient greek term Αφρική, Afrikè from αφρός,afròs "foam (of waves)" and the suffix -ikè meaning "(Land of) waves", similar to Aphrodite ~2026-39606-52 (talk) 19:14, 12 July 2026 (UTC)