Talk:Stereotypes of Africa

Colonial years

I'm surprised to see that stereotypes are defined as "dating back to the colonial years of settlement, particularly after slavery became a racial institution". Stereotypes are much longer available within the egyptian, persian and ottoman culture. --Hannolans (talk) 22:16, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

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Social science History

What stereotype do many people have about African history 105.244.46.157 (talk) 15:29, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Mansa Musa

Mansa Musa is the first person in Africa to be the richest of them all like is still the richest even now but if you can even make research about him you will never found any picture of him or his family that's how wealthy was because he did that because he wouldn't be a bad mailed like a dead yeah so that's all I can say 41.13.22.6 (talk) 13:40, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Sources

Hi, here's some sources if anyone's looking to improve this article. There's definitely a lot of potential. If you've made enough edits, you can access most of these from the Wikipedia Library [1]

• [2] Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa 2022
• [3] The Relationship Between Stereotypes and Prejudice Toward The Africans in Italian University Students 2014
• [4] European and African Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century Fiction 1980
• [5] Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes 2014
• [6] Young People’s Perceptions of Africa 2012
• [7] “Africa: Myth and Reality” 1994

Kowal2701 (talk) 19:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

The {{POV}} tag is normally for indicating an ongoing dispute because there is a lack of consensus among editors: Drive-by tagging is strongly discouraged. The editor who adds the tag should discuss concerns on the talk page, pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies. @Kowal2701: What are your specific concerns about text violating WP:NPOV? In which edits (please give {{diff}}s) were your attempts at NPOVing the concerns reverted by other editors? Boud (talk) 23:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Tbh the POV tag can be removed, I just think there’s lot of room for improvement, including for positive stereotypes Kowal2701 (talk) 07:07, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done Agreed that there's room for improvement. The options are to convince others to do so, give them some help (as you've done with the list) to make the task easier, or do the work oneself. :) You could also post messages at the talk pages of any of the six listed WikiProjects, such as Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora. Boud (talk) 13:57, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I might come back to this at a later date Kowal2701 (talk) 15:05, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Unsupported Statement about a “Nature Reserve”

The article says the United States views Africa as a sparsely populated nature reserve. This is unsupported.

The only source is comically bad for such an assertion. It is an African article (so unqualified to state what Americans think anyway even if we’re going to resort to anecdotes, which we should not…). And in that article it cites one African guy’s opinion that Americans think Africa is a big jungle, and the reason he thinks this? Don’t hold your breath, there’s no study or data or anything compelling… No, he appears to have been offended by a single airline company putting a picture of a Giraffe on something that should have been about Ghana (which has no Giraffes, apparently), and in apparent frustration commented that Americans think Africa is a sparsely populated jungle or something along those lines.

This is inadequate to support the article’s assertion (need I even say that?).

It instantly struck me as a very bizarre thing. Because having lived in the U.S. for 31 years now, I can definitely say that the stereotypes about warlords, AIDs, poor development, dangerous and impoverished conditions — that stuff definitely. But “sparsely populated” and one big “jungle” … Nobody thinks that. Maybe children idk. But the average Americqn is more likely to picture the opposite — heavily populated black slums — in their head I would wager. 107.122.189.78 (talk) 02:37, 13 September 2024 (UTC)