Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 4

message: Hi guys i need a third party opinon regarding the defenition of the Horn of Africa. I am curruntly involved in a disbute about defenition of this subject.The term Horn of africa originates from a geographical name refering to a peninsula in east africa comprising somalia and and a part of south eastern Ethiopia. If you look at the map of africa you could clearly see this peninsula shaped like a Horn. However this is ommited from the wiki page on the horn. when i tried to add this to the wiki page i came to a dispute with a couple of contributors. They can't get their heads round the Term Horn of africa as well as being the actual name of a peninsula that the name is also adopted and used with reference to socio political area known as the Horn of africa region. they think the the term only refers to the region.--Liban80 (talk) 00:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horn of Africa 

message: There's currently a bot request for approval for WikiProject tagging of the Angola-related articles in the categories listed at User:John Carter/Africa categories. Andrea105 (talk) 19:17, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BRFA for tagging of Angola-related articles 

message: I came across Gorewang Kgamane during new page patrol. I have tried to fix the article up a bit, but it currently contradicts information found in List of rulers of Bangwato (bamaNgwato). Can someone more familiar with the subject take a look? Thanks. Singularity42 (talk) 17:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction with [[Gorewang Kgamane]] 

message: I'd like to bring this article to the attention of this wikiproject and ask if the members agree with this recent edit which essentially reset this article to a bare-bones stub. I'm definitely not an expert in the subject matter, but am concerned that such a drastic removal of content can be made without any attempt at preserving the useful bits. -- œ™ 01:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[African Philosophy]] 

message: Here's a funny article. And by "funny" I mean "smells fishy, potentially OR or POV fork". --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 16:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kama, Kamit]] 

message: I have started to improve the article on "African Traditional Religion". I have concentrated so far on Section 1. I want to move this stuff to the Article Religion in Africa (see the talk page for my reasons, I would be glad to hear oppinions). S
ince I am not a native Speaker, some copyediting might be necessary. Thanks. Glad to be here again after some time. Hope I can continue soon. Nannus (talk) 16:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  African Traditional Religion 

message: Since several couple of Wikipedia-Books are Africa-related, could this project adopt the book-class? This would really help WikiProject Wikipedia-Books, as the WP Africa people can oversee books like Africa much better than we could as far as merging, deletion, content, and such are concerned. Eventually there probably will be a "Books for discussion" process, so that would be incorporated in the Article Alerts.
There's an article in last week's Signpost if you aren't familiar with Wikipedia-Books and classes in general. If you have any questions just ask. Thanks. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:11, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone for/against this? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:21, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book-Class 

message: There is currently a discussion involving, so far, a limited number of editors regarding whether to include multiple names in non-English script in articles about locations in areas where more than one script is in use. Any individuals interested in commenting are encouraged to do so at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Inclusion of names in alternate scripts. Thank you for your attention. John Carter (talk) 17:05, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion regarding possible inclusion of multiple non-English names 

message: i knw more than they knw bout these manuscripts.they call timbuktu..................  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.254.214.111 (talk) 12:52, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  u people r talking fake about manuscripts.................. 

message: Could editors with expertise in African history please have a look at Nkon?  Some remarkable claims are being made there, with very little in the way of references.  Thanks, MuffledThud (talk) 23:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nkon 

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message: I've red the page about pygmee and want to remark that i was in senegal (region Gallo Koye, just north of the border with gambia) arround 2000 and saw some pygmee there also. They travel from the south-east (Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo) the locals said and come to trade stuff. I didn't talk to them myself because they didn't speak english or french, but some morrocon (with who i was travelling) who spoke wolof did it in wolof and he bought some minerals (ametist and quartz crystal stones) from them. They did say they came from Nigeria and collected them there to sell to traders and tourists in west africa.
I have no scientific or documented proof for this, this is personal experience. I think they do come from central africa, but are way more spread over africa than the wiki article suggest.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.197.77 (talk) 18:13, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  about pygmee article 

message: The current collaboration project for the month of February for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats is Leopard, which is also an article listed under WikiProject Africa. Members of both projects are invited to participate in the effort to get "Leopard" to feature article status! Tea with toast (talk) 02:52, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Collaboration project: [[Leopard]] 

message: The lead of the Zambia article mentions the AIDS rate.  Botswana is much high, but has no mention.  This is not fair and not very scholarly.  Let's come to an understanding.  
If someone wants to mention it in Botswana because it is the world's 2nd highest, I can see the logic.  Mentioning it only in the Zambia article is not fair and makes the articles too variable.  Let's try to standardize things a bit. JB50000 (talk) 04:22, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AIDS rate 

message: hi, am mose erick and will like to contribute to this project by raising my concern over the high insecurity state which is existing in this district. to commence with, i will like to know why there are the so called kizunguzungu in the district. i have seen many deaths occur in the district in the name of security, if really thes people are there to keep us safe, i think when they identify the so called offenders they are after ,they should grab them and hand thm over to the police instead of killing them.
second concern is the industrialization of the district. Kisii district is located in an agriculturally proguctive region with variety of crops growing there, why cant the government erect processing induustries around to save the people from the problems they have of having to sell their commodities to middle men who buy these commodities at prices that are demoralizing. 
for instance the two years i stayed in the district, i could have plenty of fruits like avocadoes, bananas among many that i want to sell, but the most annoying thing is that the o called potential customes to my goods are offering me the prices which are far below production costs meaning that i could spend a lot of money producing my goods then i give them free of charge to the middlemen. it is very annoying  and irritating, i lost hope and decided to do other things
so far that is my concern and will advice improvement should be made to save this situation  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.0.5.110 (talk) 15:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  security 

message: I think this project is really all about taking agency away from the Africans. Let's make it multilingual and also make it so nobody outside of Africa can say anything. Many of the people not in Africa are not subalterns. We need to empower the subalterns. This is not a communist objective. Btw many Africans will not be able to figure out how to use this confusing language.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.143.122 (talk • contribs) 04:32, 28 February 2010
:Hello, thanks for your comment. I moved it down here because new comments generally go at the bottom of a talkpage, and you had posted in the middle of someone else's comment, making it a bit confusing to read.
:When you say "this project" - do you mean Wikipedia in general, or WikiProject Africa? Wikipedia is available in many different languages, including African languages. If you go to http://www.wikipedia.org/ you can see the different languages available. This is the English language version, so articles and discussions only take place in English.
:If you are talking about WikiProject Africa, well, again, this is the English-language Wikipedia so it wouldn't be very helpful to make it multi lingual. As for making it so that no one outside Africa can say anything, that's not how Wikiprojects work. Different editors have different interests, and they don't have to prove that they are qualified in some way to discuss a certain topic. We wouldn't stop someone from Africa talking about France or New York or Siberia, and so we also don't stop anyone not from Africa talking about Africa. On the practical side, unfortunately we don't have a great number of contributors from Africa, so stopping other editors from working on Africa-related things would mean that African topics would receive even less attention than they do now.
:If you have concerns about a particular article and think that it has a Western bias, for example, then you can bring those concerns up at the article talkpage, or here. I hope I've answered some of your concerns, if not, feel free to ask again. --BelovedFreak 10:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: New comment

message: An IP editor (86.179.28.131 (talk)) made several edits to Politics of Tunisia‎, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, and Elections in Tunisia that might be POV-pushing. Other editors and I reverted some of these, but I don't know enough about the topics to know what is and is not POV. Someone familiar with Tunisian politics might want to check these edits out, and feel free to revert my reversions if I made them in error. Thanks, PDCook (talk) 13:58, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunisia articles edited by an IP 

message: Accomodation Plettenberg Bay  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian Colborne (talk • contribs) 14:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, sorry, Wikipedia is not for advertising or promotion.--BelovedFreak 10:27, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for consideration of new link in Plettenberg bay 

message: At MW2010, I got in touch with a representative of the International Council for Africa Museums. He told me that he represents several museum curators who are interested in participating on Wikipedia. I'd like to put them in touch editors who edit those topics (African art, history, etc). If there are editors here who are interested, please let me know so we can work out some kind of system for collaboration. Raul654 (talk) 01:57, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: that's fantastic. I'm certainly interested in helping - especially with Ghana topics. Dsp13 (talk) 07:56, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm still waiting for him to respond to my email. I'll let you know when he does. Raul654 (talk) 15:18, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: African museum curators interested in editing Wikipedia

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thread_title:  Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons 

message: Google's private foundation has offered to provide support to several non-English Wikipedias, including the Swahili Wikipedia.  (See this announcement.)  Forty medicine- or health-related articles, some of particular interest to developing countries, have been identified as targets.  
I think that it would be particularly helpful if some of these articles were expanded to make them more global/more obviously applicable to non-English-speaking countries.  For example, recreational drug use contains prevalence information for Ireland and the US, but no other countries.
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thread_title:  Invitation to improve medical articles related to Africa 

message: I have a picture that shows an Indian building in South Africa. I am in no way associated with the building but I feel the picture will fit well in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians_in_South_Africa .
The picture is http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Indian_building_in_south_africa.JPG&oldid=38768777 here.
I am new to Wikipedia. What shall I do to add this picture to the 'Indians in South Africa' article? Could you add it?
Thanks, of course.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Namastesa (talk • contribs) 12:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello there. I've added the picture to the article. I did this by typing:   thumb|right|An Indian cafe in South Africa  Putting the file name in brackets (these things   ) makes it into a picture, thumb makes the image smaller, right puts it on the right hand side of the article, and the last sentence is the caption. If you want to do something more complicated, you can check out Wikipedia:Images, but the above format will work 99% of the time. Thank you for uploading the photo, and if you have any questions write me a note on my talk pages. Cheers. --Banana (talk) 01:10, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A picture for the article - 'Indian South Africans.' 

message: I have a proposal to add what number president Goodluck Jonathan is to the infobox on the relating article.  There is a dispute over that, so I'm highlighting the discussion for wider community involvement.  If you can get involved, thank you very much: Talk:Goodluck Jonathan#Order of office proposal. HonouraryMix (talk) 12:25, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to add order of office to Goodluck Jonathan  

message: I've nominated Timeline of Tanzanian history for a peer review (Wikipedia:Peer review/Timeline of Tanzanian history/archive1), so if anyone has any comments or suggestions, they would be much appreciated.--BelovedFreak 14:56, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of Tanzanian history peer review 

message: Hello. Is anyone working on the current collaboration article? If so, I have posted something on the talk page of the article. A response would be appreciated. --Syed Kazim (Talk | Contribs)  20:46, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Uganda has been the collaboration of the month since February 2007. This wikiproject is pretty inactive.--Banana (talk) 05:21, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, thanks for letting me know. I was wondering why no one replied to my post on the Uganda talk page. Should have checked the history. --Syed Kazim (Talk | Contribs)  23:01, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uganda - Current Collaboration 

message: I'm going to reorganize some of the sections and remove some of the more inactive parts. Feel free to help or comment.--Banana (talk) 05:50, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Overhaul

message: It has been proposed to split this 176k long list into four lists. Comments at the talk page please. Mjroots (talk) 09:33, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: List of ships attacked by Somali pirates

message: FYI,  has been nominated for deletion. 76.66.193.224 (talk) 03:26, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This has now been replaced by .  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:44, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Africa portal 

message: How do we as online civil society contribute to the democratic process of good governance in Africa specially Zambia?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stofyo (talk • contribs) 08:27, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what your question is.--Banana (talk) 21:49, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Governance and Africa 

message: People like my step dad, think that Africa is a third world country, witch i defianetly agree, but if it were'nt for tehe white people it wouldn't be . Because the white people came and took the african's, there was nobody to take care of the continent, witch mean's, the grass died, the crop's died, everything .. 
So when people say that Africa is a third world country, think, " Who's fault is it "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.5.135.80 (talk) 00:17, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  You Don't Know !  

message: An article on Rwanda mentioned the historical region of "Buha", and it was a redlink, so I googled it up.  I'm getting precious few online resources, and mostly indirect references in the context of how people who invaded the Rwanda/Burundi area came from there.  I'd like to start a stub, but honestly the info I've found is so skimpy I'm concerned that it'd be just a sentence or two and sit unexpanded for years.  Does anyone have and basic info/footnotes on this region to at least get a stub going, or some broader sense of context on how to frame/categorise the article? MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:44, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: From googling, I got  and . Just from skimming, it seems like there is enough to write a short paragraph. The main obstacle to writing articles about African history, and one of the reasons the history of Africa is a weak point of Wikipedia, is the lack of online sources in English. In the past, I've found google books as well as translating pages through google translate to be helpful. As for how to organize the article, Kingdom of Kush is a well written article about a region that no longer exists, although there is not enough information on Buha to write an article any where as informative. Some basic information that should be included would be the time period it existed and why it no longer exists. Just my two cents.--Banana (talk) 06:00, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article for [[Buha]] (historical region of Burundi???) 

message: Is there anyone in this project who by any chance has a knowledge of education in Africa, and particularly special education in Africa? If so we would much appreciate it if you could cast your eye over the article on Special education and give us some input on how special education is dealt with in Africa. It's very difficult to find sources, and we are keen to ensure that the article has a global perspective. Dahliarose (talk) 23:07, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Special education in Africa

message: Hi guys! Several airline headquarters in Africa need to be photographed. They include:
* South African Airways: - 1 Jones Road, Kempton Park, Gauteng - Here is a Google Maps view of the building.
* Ethiopian Airlines - Bole Airport
* Kenya Airways - Airport Road, near Jomo Kenyatta Airport
* Egyptair - Airport Road, near Cairo Airport
* Royal Air Maroc - Anfa Airport
WhisperToMe (talk) 05:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Airline headquarters photo requests

message: I was surprised that such a cat didn't yet exist, so I created it. Still needs some populating (you can take some clues by looking at the French version of the category). Note that this does not cover Leopold's Congo Free State, but rather the 1908-1960 state. Thanks for any help sorting the proper articles into this category. MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:30, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category: [[:Category:Belgian Congo]] 

message: There's been a major re-write of Involvement_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China_in_Africa.  Would you consider re-rating the page? Thanks  69.142.154.10 (talk) 01:02, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved it up to B-class and put an explanation on the talk page.--Banana (talk) 05:13, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-rate re-write? 

message: well, am a Malaysian resident and been to Masaka for quite some time and well, I ought to supplement on the data provided on the Wikipedia page for Masaka, I believe a lot more needs to be said about this great town, things like its rich cultural heritage, home of 60% of currently Uganda's richest Ugandans apparently owning businesses in Kampala and different other hotels besides Brovad Hotel; like Zebra Hotel, and different others, home of the region's soccer team Masaka LC football club  with their own stadium with in the area203.192.154.122 (talk) 08:23, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do add to the article to improve it, that would be appreciated. please try to make sure though, that what you add is backed up by references to reliable sources so that it is all verifiable by our readers. Thanks, --BelovedFreak 10:42, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Masaka, Uganda 

message: The origin of the name Simonsberg.  Simonsberg near Stellenbosch was named in honour of Reverent Pierre Simondt together with the village of Simondium. Not the Governor Simon van der Stel.  The preacher/farmer Pierre Simondt stayed on the historic Bethlehem farm in Banhoek/Dwarsriver Valley.  Reverend Pierre Simondt was the preacher that came with the Huguenots and preached in French alternatively between Stellenbosch and Simondium (were the first Huguenot church was also build).
There are already so many names and places connected to Simon van der Stel.  Simonstown together with Simons Bay and the adjoining hillock also named Simonberg near Cape Point.  Please investigate
P.S. I reside in the mission village of (spelled) Pniël also as the beautiful picture on the web indicate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.213.207.69 (talk) 08:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simonsberg "Mountain" Stellenbosch/Simondium 

message: I believe that this article show be reviewed again. It was rated start class three years ago, and I've put an awful lot of time into it. I sure hope it would be rated higher now. Ditto for African Dance.How do I get that started? Steve Pastor (talk) 21:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maassai 

message: The British Cameroons (alternatively and lately after October 1, 1961 with the loss of British Northern Cameroons to Nigeria and the Reunification of the British southern Cameroons with the French Cameroon) was made up of two pieces that gave birth to the Usage in british parliament and political circles of 'the Cameroons. At no time had the French cameroon territory in predominent French history on Cameroon been referred to as 'the Cameroons' rather only when referencing the English speaking portions administered by Britain was there reference to the Cameroons; most used to denote the English admistered territories of Cameroon.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.144.197 (talk) 01:40, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The usage Cameroons 

message: nominated Gbe languages 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.-- Cirt (talk) 16:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR notice for Gbe languages 

message: How often the negative is highlighted and the memorable glories of be In g Obs is overshadowed.
Yes people get murdered, it happens everywhere. Headquarters to major stuff ~ happening in smaller or larger scale, everywhere.
You got the hippies living in community albeit the difference's. Unifyingpeople. Being respectful~ notice the movement towards change..open up. You see faces of raw honest hardship scattering the side walks. Thestory's is sensed within every encounter as the richness of the past is etched within the foundations. A place and where Openess & honesty is rarely absent you can be safely home in Obs. The more you focus on the bad aspects the more it grows. use the Wikipedia as a means to enhance lives not place unnecessary fear into them. May we all be blessed.  41.5.3.140 (talk) 21:56, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obs Fuller version 

message: if you have or had a grandparent or heard one speak you would definetly know that so much has changed since their times ,What do you think happens in the next 25 years to Africa when you too are old? am not into politics nor religious but  if what we have right now is modenisation and civilisation or not being local,stepping up, developing from LDCs TO MDcs then i would prefer that we had stayed living as animals like people assumed we lived 500 years ago  in trees or whatever , never in my life have i seen man struggle to bring harm to himself forexample , the number of defilement cases gone up , it almost seems normal these days , what of the street children its as if the roads are meant to be littered with these people ,as for the the moments when diferent tribes turn onto each other killing their own wives and children just because they are of different tribes , its mocking! and talk about the african leaders! every man for himself and God for us all, i think we as Africans should always have our beautiful flags at half mast to show our hearts mourning for our beloved homes which must inevitably be destoyed by immorality greed and gluttonly not forgetting selfishness , and to think we walk with our heads held up high while our grand parents walk with their heads low , you think its old age? you would be suprised if you bothered to ask them  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.0.7.133 (talk) 16:35, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happens to africa in the next 25 years? 

message: The article Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
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thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu]]

message: I am in the process of trying to create lists of newspapers, journals, news sources and the like for the various WikiProjects out there, for the use of their members. I think I have more or less all the nations of Africa finished, and am leaving messages on their talk pages listing the sources. This is the list of English language news and information sources which I have to date found which are more or less listed as being relevant to Africa in general. 
*Africa Confidential
*Africa Investor
*The Africa Report
*Africa Science News Service
*African Banker
*African Business
*Africa Updates
*AfricaNews.com
*Afrik-news.com
*afrol News
*alLAfrica.com
*The East African
*East African Business Week
*Focus on Africa Magazine from the BBC
*ITNewsAfrica
*New Africa Analysis
*New African
*New African Woman
*The North Africa Journal
*Pambazuka News
*Panapress.com
*SABC News
*Stichproben
John Carter (talk) 22:23, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resources/news lists 

message: Can someone please explain how the importance of African articles is determined? Important to whom? These ratings seem very subjective and arbitrary to me, but maybe because I'm not familiar. Thank you. USchick (talk) 20:46, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance ratings 

message: I'm totally baffled as to whether this has encyclopedic merit and I imagine many editors who aren't familiar with African politics to be in the same position as me.  If anybody wants to head over here to issue your opinion at the debate I'd be most appreciative. ThemFromSpace 02:46, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Nigerian traditional rulers]] up for deletion 

message: nominated Lion 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. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 00:46, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR 

message: The annual West African climate-related crises are among the under-reported disasters in this world. In the dry Sahel region, communities are periodically affected by food- and nutrition crises; not only along the southern coastal regions many communities are regularly affected by heavy floods during the rainy season. Annually, several hundreds of thousands of people in the region are affected by floods; each year hundreds of people die. Funds for emergency relief to the persons affected in the region are often insufficient due to a lack of media-attention on and donor-interest in the region. In the light of a steady aggravation of these floods due to climate change and given the fact that each dollar spent for preparedness saves 7 dollars in disaster relief, a focus on strategic disaster preparedness programs could be a meaningful way to face the situation. So far, most West African states lack the experience and the capacity to prepare their population for disasters and to alert them in advance. However, some initiatives by both states and non-governmental organizations have been very promising. The following blog http://floodsinwestafrica.wordpress.com/ informs about the flood events, the damages, the responses and the initiatives that aim at long term solutions to the problem.Arnowai (talk) 10:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Floods in West Africa 

message: What do you have to make of south sudanese during this time of hardship they are going through, on whether to go for separation or unity and how can they achieve if the ICC canidate Bashir still do stand with his idea of 75% to support separation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.0.12.222 (talk) 13:05, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  southSudan referendum 

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thread_title:  Africa articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: . . . we need records of Somalia's ministers of government. --Banana (talk) 06:41, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  To really make progress on the unreferenced BLPs. . . 

message: Hi guys,
For your information, I have just nominated Rwanda (which I have been working on a lot recently) for peer review.
The peer review page is: Wikipedia:Peer review/Rwanda/archive2
I would very much appreciate any input into that, as part of my overall goal of elevating the article to WP:FA status.
Thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 21:07, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rwanda]] peer review 

message: Would someone please create a category for the reqpghotos in the Central African Republic? Thanks!Zigzig20s (talk) 12:52, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't it already exist? Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the Central African Republic --Banana (talk) 06:54, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  reqphoto in Central African Republic  

message: Hi all,
I've found some problems with railway-related articles in African countries, detailed here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains#Railway_stations_in_country_X. I'm keen to set about fixing them but, of course, any suggestions / comments / complaints would be welcome over on that talkpage. bobrayner (talk) 21:27, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some issues with African transport articles: Comments invited 

message: Question:
Can someone add what type of govt. is in place in each country, i.e. democratic, communist, socialist etc.?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.167.47.190 (talk) 01:59, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type of government 

message: *
There was a user that posted to WP:BLPN requesting individuals to expand upon and improve this article. Perhaps members of this WikiProject might be interested in helping out. :) -- Cirt (talk) 16:04, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ibrahim Ben Kargbo 

message: My name is Louise and I am trying to find information about the history and culture of the Birwarra of Uganda.My email is billiefonteyn@hotmail.com.Thank you  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.16.248.207 (talk) 05:12, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birwarra 

message: Bonjour à tous, nous avons réalisé un site sur le village de Cap Skirring situé au sud de la Casamance au Sénégal, peut être un petit plus pour ceux qui désire se rendre en Afrique  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.4.169.209 (talk) 21:11, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sénégal Cap Skirring 

message: The article Academic degree has a lot of information about University degrees in a wide variety of countries but has absolutely nothing about any African countries. See Talk:Academic degree#Africa?. Please help correct this ommission. Roger (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  African university degrees 

message: There is currently a request for comments at Talk:The Gambia on whether to capitalize the definite article in the country name. Feel free to participate in the discussion. Jafeluv (talk) 05:43, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: The Gambia or the Gambia 

message: Hello. I'd like to add several external links to the pages about Seychelles Islands (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Island,_Seychelles or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Island). The website I would like to add is: http://seychellestour.com/
I like this website. It seems to be a non-commercial project which gives us a good travel guide about these islands.
I tried to find any copies of the articles on Google but the content is unique. I think. :-) That's why I decided to place some links to the "external links".
However, I think I placed to much links. They were deleted. I'm sorry. Hope it won't harm this Seychelles' website.
May I place several links again or it's not a good idea? I'm not own this website. I've just been in Seychelles several times and read this travel guide when was planning my trip. Seychellestour also has good gallery with photos of the Seychelles Islands (http://seychellestour.com/photos/) but I don't where to place the link of the gallery.
Sorry for my bad English.
Best wishes,
Joaquim.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.102.134.188 (talk) 17:43, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seychelles Islands website 

message: Hi all,
Al Noor City claims to be two separate (proposed) cities, one in Djibouti and one on the opposite side of the Bab-el-Mandeb. However, it also claims to be a proposed city on the banks of the White Nile, which is quite a long distance from the Bab-el-Mandeb.
I think the problem is that "Al Noor" is a fairly common name (and quite attractive to the kind of people who like to draw maps of fantasy infrastructure), and here we have an article which accidentally mashes together sources talking about two different proposed cities in Africa which just happen to have the same name. Does that sound reasonable? If so, I'd like to split/move/redirect as appropriate.
There might not be enough content & sources for a standalone article on the Nile city, but there's probably enough for the Bab-el-Mandeb city/cities.
Any comments/suggestions/complaints? bobrayner (talk) 02:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. I would leave the information on the twin cities at the current title, with a hat note at the top explaining that another proposed city exists. If there is enough information for an article about the city on the West Nile, than the hat note can link to it. --Banana (talk) 05:10, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  bobrayner (talk) 21:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Al Noor City 

message: The Wild Coast Jikeleza Tourist Route is a collection of several tourism attractions that include accommodation, adventure and activity, wildlife, arts and crafts as well as food and beverage stops. 
“Jikeleza” in the local isiXhosa language means to “wander” or “meander” through the region. The route starts just outside the East London suburb of Beacon Bay and ends on the N2 some 30km away. For the most part it follows the T1 Road (also known as Schafli or the East Coast Resorts Road) with several stops on a number of tarred and well sign-posted trunk roads ranging from the T2 to the T10. The route is in a malaria free, pristine coastal area of temperate climate and natural beauty.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jikelezaboss (talk • contribs) 12:20, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there an actual relevant point to this or is it just spam? Roger (talk) 16:17, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wild Coast Jikeleza Tourist Route  

message: The link to the website (korlebuhospital.org) does not appear to work. Does anyone know if Korle Bu changed their website domain name173.95.146.224 (talk) 15:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  website 

message: The site at Lowe, north of Gaborone, has been claimed as a Setswana creation site called Matsieng's Footprint. However, it is clearly a bushman petroglyph site, and continuing the false claim assists the usurping Bantu to further alienate the first peoples of the land, denies them their heritage and denies their ownership of the land.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fariedvanwyk (talk • contribs) 13:11, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matsieng 

message: The statement in the Cell C page "Cell C is South Africa’s third cellular provider" is incorrect and must be change because there are now five cellular providers in South Africa, namely MTN_Group, Vodacom, Virgin_Mobile_South_Africa and 8ta. --Wikiresu (talk) 04:37, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Cell C is still the third - Virgin and 8ta came along after it. No matter how many there are in total they were established at different times so there is a clear order (except for the first two - Vodacom and MTN - that were established simultaneously at the beginning) Cell C was established next, third, then Virgin came fourth and just recently 8ta became the fifth.  BTW This discussion actually belongs on the article's talk page, not here, as it concerns only that article. Roger (talk) 07:17, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In a case like that it could be better to say that it was South Africa’s third cellular provider. bobrayner (talk) 22:13, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cell C 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#Infobox Images for Ethnic Groups.  Gyrofrog  (talk) 00:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#Infobox Images for Ethnic Groups

message: AndyTheGrump has started another discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Ethnic_over-classification that I think editors at this project might be able to help resolve.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:40, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Village Pump 

message: Hi guys,
Just to let you all know that I've relisted it for another peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Rwanda/archive3. I got useful feedback from the last one four months ago, and have now improved the article accordingly. Any and all opinions on its current state welcome! Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 23:35, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rwanda]] - new peer review 

message: This article was created on 31 Jan. 11, and a discussion from 5-13 Feb. led to the recommendation that it be merged into a parent article, Mining industry of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, based on issues of encyclopaedic value, neutral point of view, etc.
On 15 Feb, I re-opened the merger discussion, on the original article's talk page, based on  advice made 14 Feb. by the administrator who closed the previous discussion.  Briefly, the reasons for re-opening discussion are that new information was added to the article on 8, 10 and 15 Feb., after most of the previous discussion's contributions had already been made.  New material in the introduction section, coupled with added statistics on Canadian mining assets from Natural Resources Canada, assert that Canadian extractive activities, differentiated from other countries' activities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, constitute a unique case that warrants a separate Wikipedia article.  The more general article then requires only a summary entry on Canada, I argue, directing readers to the sub-article for full coverage.  My detailed argument and summary of the previous discussion appears as the first entry on the talk page.
I therefore encourage members of the WikiProject Africa group, with their collective subject expertise, to review and assess the article, and if possible, to contribute to the discussion.  This appears to be the first article in a class (Country X) mining in (Country Y), so perhaps deserves some attention.
Thank you,
IVX8O8XVI (talk) 20:36, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Canadian mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo]] 

message: * Talk:Kirundi#move
Just thought I'd flag this up as it is an African related topic, and guys here may have opinions on it one way or the other. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 18:50, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move request for [[Kirundi]] 

message: I just blundered onto the topic, and I'm seeing wildly different accounts of this Obafemi Awolowo.  The Wikipedia article offers a very rosy picture, matched by a glowing Kofi Annan eulogy.   Yet I also see several sites such as:
::"Nigeria had launched a blockade on Biafra and Chief Obafemi Awolowo declared "All is fair in war, and starvation is one of the weapons of war. I don't see why we should feed our enemies fat in order for them to fight us harder" (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Financial Timesï»¿ London, 6/26/1969; Daily Telegraph, 6/27/69). Awolowo was the Vice Chairman of the Federal Military Executive Council of the Nigerian state when he made this statement.
::Obafemi Awolowo fanatically championed Nigeria's notorious "Starvation as a legitimate weapon/quick kill" war strategy on Biafra, which resulted in a huge percent of the total Biafran casualty, especially the death of children in their millions."
I haven't tracked down the original microfilm articles, however, and the online sources I've seen wouldn't pass Wikipedia standards.
Now I don't think there's any dispute that Awolowo was in a position of power in Nigeria at a time when Senator Kennedy said that there 10,000 children starving per day in Biafra, after these people were displaced from food-producing areas and (bureaucratically) denied aid by the Nigeria which refused the Red Cross permission.  However, the starvation quote seems usually attributed to "the Nigerian government", "Nigerian officials", etc.
Can anyone clarify whether Awolowo actually delivered the starvation quote, and point toward the most reliable sources for his role in the starvation itself? Wnt (talk) 18:20, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Obafemi Awolowo]] and the man-made Biafra famine 

message: The articles about the game reserves lack indepth informationa bout their history and the kind of accomodation they offer. for example the Mabula Game reserve only has a sentence pertaining to its accomodation but does not give detailed information. It would be heplful to post information  about the lodges and their features as well.— Preceding unsigned comment added by FlorenceJasi (talk • contribs) 05:14, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Game reserves can be notable for a number of reasons, and a lot of their articles need attention; but realistically, it might not always be appropriate to put every detail in wikipedia - this is an encyclopædia, not a travel guide. bobrayner (talk) 10:52, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information about Game Reserves and their features 

message: Needs work - moving to better title, and disam from Xagar (which is in Tibet), improving the English etc. Or prodding if the info is already in somewhere else. I've not added this to the list on the Project page as I've done my little bit in rescuing it from CSD, and tidying it up a bit. Over to you experts now.... Peridon (talk) 12:43, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to better title and disambiguated, but I could not source the article beyond confirming the place exists.--Banana (talk) 02:56, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: New article [[Xagar lower jubba somalia]]

message: News reports tend to be very unclear but there is some sore sort of protests/uprising/revolt/revolution going on in Burkina Faso right now, including a curfew on Ouagadougou and some reports that Blaise Compaore has fled. How about an article, 2011 Burkina Faso uprising, based on the French version or its translation here? This is somewhat urgent as a current event. Metaknowledge (talk) 14:45, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: New article created. I'll try to expand it in the next few hours. Feel free to rename it if things develop in a differerent direction (sadly, this will get less media attention than Libya; but the meagre silver lining is that we won't have so much edit-warring &c) bobrayner (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2011 uprising in Burkina Faso 

message: This was my first encounter with Mathenge Mirugi from Nyeri. He was tall and light skinned and I instantly liked him. He was a born leader and he was educated too. We received support from political groups and personalities like Bildad Kaggia and Paul Ngei. We needed arms and ammunition.
Excerpts from 'Secrets of Mau Mau and oaths that bound community' by Kassam Gicimu Njogu a first hand witness who seems to infer that general Mathenge was not illiterate as you have indicated  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.139.173.242 (talk) 15:21, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the article, it appears the citation supports that Stanley Mathenge led a group of illiterate soldiers and does not say that he was illiterate himself. I can't find any record of your book on google books or Amazon. This is somewhat common for non-western books. I'm going to correct the information in the article, but it would be nice to have either an online references or provide a full offline reference for the book cited above. Thank you for spotting this mistake!--Banana (talk) 05:14, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: (That's because it's not a book.) Wikiacc (¶) 21:06, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The video has been taken down from youtube and I can't find any citation information on the film.--Banana (talk) 00:02, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GENERAL MATHENGE 

message: i need help as i am having difficulty citing the notability of artists who arent american and yet are working hard enough to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia
i guess i just need an admin who is interested enough to help me and i am willing to dedicate my time documenting and researching artists
particularly from southern africa
thank you
this is the first article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sugaspott
Wikispott (talk) 23:29, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: requesting help with musician biography

message: I'm assuming that the name of the English translation of this denomination is "Assemblies of God Africa" or something similar. Is this affiliated with the World Assemblies of God Fellowship? If so, is this denomination the same as the Mozambique Assemblies of God? Please comment on Talk:Assembleias de Deus Africanas. Ltwin (talk) 14:06, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied on talkpage. bobrayner (talk) 14:57, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Assembleias de Deus Africanas]]

message: A new editor recently arrived who states that the article Ambazonia is severely flawed an inaccurate, perhaps due to POV writing. I would appreciate any other editor taking a look at Talk:Amabazonia and then at the article Ambazonia to help me ascertain the validity of this editor's concerns and how they can best be addressed. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:45, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help needed on disputed content at [[Ambazonia]] (Cameroon) 

message: At Talk:2010–2011 Ivorian crisis, there's a new discussion going on about merging that article into the Second Ivorian Civil War article. B-Machine (talk) 19:34, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: New discussion