# Outline of Africa

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the continent Africa:
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. It is famous for its savanna, its jungles, and the Sahara (desert).

## Geography of Africa

* Atlas of Africa
* List of cities in Africa
** List of most populous cities in Africa

### Regions of Africa

Regions of Africa
* List of freshwater ecoregions in Africa and Madagascar

#### Directional regions

* Central Africa
* East Africa
* North Africa
* Southern Africa
* West Africa
* United Nations geoscheme for Africa

#### Physiographic regions

* The Sahara Desert
* The Maghreb
* The Sahel region
* The Sudan region
* The Guinea region
* The Congo
* The Great Lakes region

### Countries of Africa

List of African countries
* Coats of arms of Africa
* Flags of Africa

#### West Africa

* Benin
* Burkina Faso
* Cape Verde
* The Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Liberia
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone
* Togo

#### North Africa

* Algeria
* Egypt$^1$
* Libya
* Mauritania
* Morocco
* Sudan
* Tunisia
* Western Sahara

#### Central Africa

* Angola
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Equatorial Guinea
* Gabon
* Republic of the Congo
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe

#### East Africa

* Burundi
* Comoros
* Djibouti
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Kenya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mauritius
* Mozambique
* Rwanda
* Seychelles
* Somalia
* Somaliland
* South Sudan
* Tanzania
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

#### Southern Africa

* Botswana
* Eswatini
* Lesotho
* Namibia
* South Africa

#### Dependencies

* British Indian Ocean Territory (UK)
* Mayotte (France)
* Réunion (France)
* St. Helena (UK)
* Canary Islands (Spain)
* Ceuta (Spain)
* Madeira (Portugal)
* Melilla (Spain)
* Socotra (Yemen)
* Pantelleria (Italy)
* Puntland (Somalia)
* Somaliland
* Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

### Geographic features of Africa

* List of World Heritage Sites in Africa
* Glaciers in Africa
* Horn of Africa
* Impact craters in Africa
* Islands of Africa
* Rivers of Africa

### Demography of Africa

Demographics of Africa

## History of Africa

* Afrikaner nationalism
* Bantu expansion
* Berlin Conference
* Boer Republics
* Congo Free State
* Early Congolese history
* Expulsion of Asians in Uganda in 1972
* Indophobia
* Pioneer Column
* Serer ancient history
* Serer history (medieval era to present)
* South Africa under apartheid
* Timeline of Serer history
* Volkstaat

### History of Africa by period

* Prehistory
** Pleistocene human population bottleneck in Africa
** Prehistoric Central North Africa
* Ancient African history
** Ancient History of South Africa
** Copper Age in Africa
** Iron Age in Africa
** Olmec alternative origin speculations
* Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact
** Pre-Columbian Africa-Americas contact theories
* European exploration of Africa
* Colonisation of Africa
** Blockade of Africa
** Scramble for Africa
* African theatre of World War I
* Decolonisation of Africa
** Year of Africa

#### History of Africa by year

* 2016 in Africa
* 2007 in Africa
* 2006 in Africa
* 2005 in Africa
* 1960 in Africa (known as the "Year of Africa")

### History of Africa by region

* History of Central Africa
* History of East Africa
* History of North Africa
* History of Southern Africa
** Ancient History of South Africa
* History of West Africa

### History of Africa by subject

* African archaeology
* Assassinations in Africa
* Economic history of Africa
* Extinct animals of Africa
* Extinct languages of Africa
* Legends of Africa
* Military history of Africa
** African military systems to 1800
** African military systems (1800–1900)
** African military systems after 1900
* Natural history of Africa
* Political history of Eastern Africa
* Science and technology in Africa
* Slavery
** African slave trade
** Slavery in Africa

#### Empires in Africa

African empires
* Adal Sultanate
* Ajuran Sultanate
* Almohad Caliphate
* Almoravid Caliphate
* Aro Confederacy
* Asante Union
* Ayyubid Sultanate
* Bamana Empire
* Benin Empire
* Bornu Empire
* Ethiopian Empire
* Fatimid Caliphate
* Ghana Empire
* Kaabu Empire
* Kanem Empire
* Kong Empire
* Liberian Republic
* Luba Empire
* Lunda Empire
* Mali Empire
* Mamluk Sultanate
* Marinid dynasty
* Oyo Empire
* Sennar Sultanate
* Sokoto Caliphate
* Songhai Empire
* Wassoulou Empire
* Wolof Empire

## Culture of Africa

Culture of Africa
* Architecture of Africa
** Castles in Africa
** Mosques in Africa
** Tallest buildings in Africa
** Architecture of Egypt
*** Ancient Egyptian architecture
**** Egyptian pyramids
**** Urban planning in ancient Egypt
*** Egyptian Revival architecture
*** Egyptian revival decorative arts
** Architect Africa Film Festival
** Architecture of Ethiopia
** Architecture of Somalia
** Art Deco in Durban
** Cape Dutch architecture
** Rondavel
* Caste system in Africa
* Etiquette in Africa
* Languages of Africa
** List of African languages
** Endangered languages in Africa
** Portuguese in Africa
** Writing systems of Africa
* Prostitution in Africa
* Racism in Africa
* Slavery in modern Africa
* Writing systems of Africa
* Urbanization in Africa

### Art in Africa
#### Cinema of Africa

* List of African films

#### Music of Africa

* African popular music
* Afrobeat
* Afrobeats
* Music of Africa

### Cuisine of Africa

African cuisine
* Beer in Africa

### People of Africa

* Chinatowns in Africa
* African diaspora
* Indigenous peoples of Africa
* List of African millionaires

#### Ethnic groups in Africa

Ethnic groups in Africa
* Afrikaners
* Asians in Africa
** Asian South African
** Chinese South Africans
** Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique
** Koreans in Africa
* British diaspora in Africa
* Greeks
** Greeks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
** Greeks in South Africa
** Greeks in Zimbabwe
* Indian diaspora in East Africa
* Indian South Africans
* Indians in Kenya
* Indians in Mozambique
* Serer people
* Tamil South Africans
* White Africans of European ancestry
* White South African
* Whites in Zimbabwe
* Whites in Kenya

#### Some famous individuals from Africa

* Aaron, first high-priest of children of Israel
* Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Imam and General of the Adal Sultanate.
* Alexander the Great, conqueror; founded Alexandria in Egypt.
* Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt.
* Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, current President of Liberia, first elected black female head of state in the world.
* F. W. de Klerk, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for helping end apartheid in South Africa.
* Haile Selassie I, last Emperor of Ethiopia.
* Kofi Annan, diplomat from Ghana.
* Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet and first president of Senegal.
* Miriam, sister of Moses.
* Moses, prophet who received the Ten Commandments.
* Muhammad Ahmad, ("The Mahdi"), Sudanese rebel leader and messianic Islamic reformer.
* Nefertiti, queen of Egypt.
* Nelson Mandela, political leader in South Africa.
* Ramesses II, often regarded as Ancient Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh.
* Shaka, legendary leader of the Zulu Kingdom.
* Tutankhamun, ("King Tut"), Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

### Religion in Africa

Religion in Africa
* Traditional African religions
* Buddhism in Africa
* Christianity in Africa
** Catholic Church in Africa
* Hinduism in Africa
* Judaism in Africa
* Islam in Africa
* Serer religion

### Sports in Africa

* African Games
* Africa Cup of Nations
* Ethiopian Super Cup
* FIBA Africa
* Ice hockey in Africa
* List of African records in athletics

## Environment of Africa

* Natural history of Africa
* Environmental issues in Africa
* Fauna of Africa
** List of primates of Africa
** List of reptiles of Africa
** List of snakes of Africa

## Economy and infrastructure of Africa

Economy of Africa
* Agriculture
** Push–pull technology
* Banks in Africa
* Cement in Africa
* Energy in Africa
** Power stations in Africa
** Renewable energy in Africa
* Health care in Africa
** HIV/AIDS in Africa
** Hospitals in Africa
* Mineral industry of Africa
** Mining in Africa
*** Metals
**** Aluminum in Africa
**** Copper in Africa
**** Iron ore in Africa
**** Platinum in Africa
**** Titanium in Africa
**** Uranium in Africa
** Steel in Africa
* Natural resources of Africa
* Poverty in Africa
* Late-2000s recession in Africa
* List of African stock exchanges

### Communications in Africa

Communications in Africa
* Internet in Africa
* Media of Africa
** Newspapers in Africa
** Radio in Africa
** Television in Africa
* Telephone numbers in Africa

### Transport in Africa

* Air transport in Africa
** Airlines of Africa
*** List of largest airlines in Africa
** List of the busiest airports in Africa
* Trans-African Highway network

## Education in Africa

Education in Africa
* Adult education in Africa
* Association of International Schools in Africa
* Universities in Africa
** Business schools in Africa
** Medical schools in Africa

## Governments of Africa

* African Union
** African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

## Politics of Africa

Politics of Africa
* Anarchism in Africa
* Conflicts in Africa
* Monarchies in Africa
* Political parties in Africa
* Pan-Africanism

### Foreign relations of Africa

* Sino-African relations

### Law of Africa

Law of Africa
* Ages of consent in Africa