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I think this article could do with a section regarding controversy surrounding the term Sub-Saharan Africa. I've been doing some searching by cant find anything concrete. I'm not sure if I read it on an older version of this article or elsewhere. But I read something about how Sub-Saharan Africa isn't a real thing because of the lack of linguistic or religious boundary between the North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Eopsid (talk) 21:21, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
This term has been used in racist ways by many people in a attempt to build a invisible wall from north Africa to black Africans to the south. The vast majority of West and East African countries shouldn't be considered "sub" but because their populations are mostly black, it's sub. 2601:8C:981:A3C0:E4ED:4ACE:8F9C:E055 (talk) 00:25, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
I am confused. Is the term "Black Africa" now in English used or not? In German this term exists (Schwarzafrika), beside other terms (Sub-Sahara). I am born in 1969. When I went to school the term "Neger"/ "negroe" was not rassistic. Rassistic were terms like "nigger", "Kaffer". This maybe has changed, what I accept. But the term "schwarz" / "black" is still o.k. isn´t it? (Even if niger nothing else means). Therefore I wonder whether the term Schwarzafrika / Black Africa is now banned. BTW: The name Niger for both country and river is also still alive, isn´t ist?Flk-Brdrf (talk) 09:45, 4 September 2023 (UTC)