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

North Africa

Central Africa

East Africa

Southern Africa

Dependencies

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

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