Talk:Culture of Africa

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Shouldn't all those See Also links by country be in a box? They'd take up less room. 30 June 2005

I do agree. --Bhadani 1 July 2005 17:44 (UTC)

Perhaps time to place all the links in a box.--Bhadani 16:20, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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This article is quite informative but largely reads like a tourism guide. There is extensive application of POV and systemic bias in the style and content. The native African religions are dealt with in a single sentence referring to animism (a fairly broad subject anyway), without even a link(s) to some of the more common or well known examples. The language section is also quite terse.

This article makes far too many generalisations and omissions and is far too short to qualify African culture as being particularly diverse and ancient, which it clearly is. A comprehensive analysis could span several articles while remaining concise. There are many pages on african culture subjects that could be linked to this page, but the links have not been set.

Articles on African subjects are notoriously terse on wikipedia, probably due to systemic bias. I'd like to see that condition remedied, preferably by english-speaking africans or students of the subject (come on, people). The brevity of the talk page is also symptomatic of the lack of interest in the field. Is it possible that the very richness and diversity of african culture generates barriers to a unified attempt to create a synthesis on the subject?--ChrisJMoor 04:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

I certainly agree with the suggestions as the original creator of the article - actually, POVs may have crept into inadvertantly. Editors more familiar with the subject should come forward to imprvove the quality of the contents. --Bhadani 16:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Just leaving a note to say good progress has been made since my comments above.--ChrisJMoor 11:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you - and surely, we all shall continue to make the page truly encyclopedic. --Bhadani 12:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

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