Outline of Africa

See also: Index of Africa-related articles

The following outline provides an overview of and topical guide to the continent Africa:

Africa – world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia.

Political map of Africa. (Hover mouse to see name, click area to go to article.)

Geography of Africa

UN subregions of Africa

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

Regions of Africa

Main article: Regions of Africa

• List of freshwater ecoregions in Africa and Madagascar

Directional regions

See also: Cardinal direction

• 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

Main article: List of African countries

• Coats of arms of Africa
• Flags of Africa

West Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

North Africa Algeria Egypt1 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 Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Southern Africa Botswana Lesotho Namibia South Africa Swaziland Dependencies British Indian Ocean Territory (UK) Mayotte (France) Réunion (France) St. Helena (UK) Canary Islands (Spain) Ceuta (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Melilla (Spain) Socotra (Yemen) Puntland 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

Main article: Demographics of Africa

History of Africa

Main article: History of Africa and Current events in 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
• Shaka the Zulu
• South Africa under apartheid
• 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 and month

2007 in Africa: January February March April May June July August September October
2006 in Africa: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2005 in Africa: October November December
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
• Fascism in 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

Main article: African empires

• Adal Sultanate
• Ajuuraan State
• 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

Main article: 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
  • Languages of the African Union
  • 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
• Music of Africa

Cuisine of Africa

Main article: African cuisine

• Beer in Africa

People of Africa

• Chinatowns in Africa
• African diaspora
• Indigenous peoples of Africa

Ethnic groups in Africa

Main article: Ethnic groups in Africa

• Afrikaners
• Anglo-African
• Asians in Africa
  • Asian South African
  • Chinese South Africans
  • Ethnic Chinese in Mozambique
  • Koreans in Africa
• Greeks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Greeks in South Africa
• Greeks in Zambia
• Greeks in Zimbabwe
• Indian diaspora in East Africa
• Indian South Africans
• Indians in Kenya
• Indians in Mozambique
• Tamil South Africans
• White Africans of European ancestry
• White South African
• Whites in Zimbabwe
• Whites in Kenya

Some famous individuals from Africa

• Ahmad ibn Ibrihim 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.
• 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

Main article: Religion in Africa

• African traditional religion
• Buddhism in Africa
• Christianity in Africa
  • Roman Catholicism in Africa
• Hinduism in Africa
• Judaism in Africa
• Islam in Africa

Sports in Africa

• All-Africa Games
• Africa Cup of Nations
• Ethiopian Super Cup
• FIBA Africa
• Ice hockey in Africa
• List of African records in athletics

Environment of Africa

Main article: Environment of Africa

• Natural history of Africa
• Environmental issues in Africa
• Fauna of Africa
  • List of turtles of Africa

Economy and infrastructure of Africa

Main article: 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
    • Coal 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

Main article: 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

Main article: 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

Main article: 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

Main article: Law of Africa

• Ages of consent in Africa

See also

Africa portal

Main article: Africa

• All pages beginning with "Africa"
• All pages beginning with "African"
• All pages with titles containing "Africa"
• All pages with titles containing "African"
• African Leaders State of Africa Report
• African studies
• Continent
• Index of Africa-related articles

References

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Africa

News

• allAfrica.com current news, events and statistics
• BBC News In Depth - Africa 2005: Time for Change?
• Yale Economic Review Africa: Failed Economic History

History

• Africa South of the Sahara
• African Kingdoms
• BBC Story of Africa Kingdoms

Directories

• Library of Congress - African & Middle Eastern Reading Room
• Africa at the Open Directory Project
• Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara
• The Index on Africa directory from The Norwegian Council for Africa
• Aluka - Digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa

Politics

• Africa Action Africa Action is the oldest organization in the United States working on African affairs. It is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa.
• Working class history in Africa -- people's and grassroots histories

Sports

• Confederation of African Football; in English and French

Tourism

• Outline of Africa travel guide from Wikitravel