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+[[File:Africa.png|thumbnail|right|200px|Africa]]
 Africa is the poorest continent in the world.<ref>"George Ayittey’s discussion of how country after country in Africa opted to throw out the [[capitalist]] baby with the [[colonialist]] bathwater on independence is a sobering example of [[libertarian]] class theory in action. He minces no words, characterizing most African countries as ruled by 'unrepentant gangsters.'" [http://www.thefreemanonline.org/book-reviews/making-poor-nations-rich-entrepreneurship-and-the-process-of-economic-development/ Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the Process of Economic Development By Benjamin Powell, ed. • Reviewed by: Robert Batemarco]</ref>
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+[[Image:Africa islam 87.jpg|thumb|Islam in Africa today]]
 {{See also|Religion and Africa}}
 The dominant religion of Arabic-speaking north Africa, is Islam. It replaced Christianity in the 7th century and slowly spread west and south across the Sahara and into the equatorial zones. Today Islam includes about 41% of all Africans.
-[[Image:Africa islam 87.jpg|thumb|Islam in Africa today]]
 The Christian churches, based on missionary work of the 19th and 20th centuries,<ref>There are remnants of much older Coptic Christian settlements in Ethiopia.</ref> claim 45% of the population, of whom 55% are Protestants. There are about 150 million Roman Catholics on the continent, led by 33,000 priests.<ref>Using projections based on data at [http://www.fides.org/eng/statistiche/2000_0.html Fides News Service]</ref>  The Anglican Church includes about 5 million members in Nigeria, 2.4 million in South Africa, 2.2 million in Uganda, 1.5 million in Kenya, 1.0 million in Tanzania, and 2 million or so elsewhere in Africa.<ref>See [http://anglican.org/domain/admin/countries.html Anglican statistics]</ref>

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-'''Africa''' is the continental landmass to the south of [[Europe]]. It is connected to [[Asia]] by the [[Sinai Peninsula]] in [[Egypt]]; the remaining borders are the [[Mediterranean Sea]] to the north, the [[Red Sea]] and [[Indian Ocean]] to the east, and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the west. Africa is socially [[conservative]] and free of [[Leftist]] movements like the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[political correctness]].  But many countries there are under socialism, albeit with freedom of religion.<ref>"Communist ideas have been prevalent in Africa since at least the early 20th century. However, nowhere on the continent was a strict form of communism ever practiced. What were practiced were hybrid forms of socialism ...." [https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0193.xml How NATO set the stage for open-air slave markets in Libya], GREGORY SHUPAK, DECEMBER 5, 2017. thegrayzone.com</ref>  [[NATO]] restored the [[slave]] trade in [[Libya]] in 2011.<ref>[https://thegrayzone.com/2017/12/05/how-nato-set-the-stage-for-open-air-slave-markets-in-libya/</ref>
+'''Africa''' is the continental landmass to the south of [[Europe]]. It is connected to [[Asia]] by the [[Sinai Peninsula]] in [[Egypt]]; the remaining borders are the [[Mediterranean Sea]] to the north, the [[Red Sea]] and [[Indian Ocean]] to the east, and the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to the west. Africa is socially [[conservative]] and free of [[Leftist]] movements like the [[homosexual agenda]] and [[political correctness]].  But many countries there are under socialism, albeit with freedom of religion.<ref>"Communist ideas have been prevalent in Africa since at least the early 20th century. However, nowhere on the continent was a strict form of communism ever practiced. What were practiced were hybrid forms of socialism ...." [https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0193.xml How NATO set the stage for open-air slave markets in Libya], GREGORY SHUPAK, DECEMBER 5, 2017. thegrayzone.com</ref>  [[NATO]] restored the [[slave]] trade in [[Libya]] in 2011.<ref>[https://thegrayzone.com/2017/12/05/how-nato-set-the-stage-for-open-air-slave-markets-in-libya/]</ref>
 New data from the Gordon Theological Seminary shows that, for the first time ever, more [[Christians]] live in Africa than on any other single continent.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Todd M. |last2=Zurlo |first2=Gina A. |last3=Hickman |first3=Albert W. |last4=Crossing |first4=Peter F. |title=Christianity 2018: More African Christians and Counting Martyrs |journal=International Bulletin of Mission Research |date=November 2017 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=20–28 |doi=10.1177/2396939317739833 |accessdate=2 May 2020}}</ref>  "The results show Africa on top with 631 million Christian residents, Latin America in 2nd place with 601 million Christians, and Europe in 3rd place with 571 million Christians."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mauro |first1=J.-P. |title=Africa overtakes Latin America for the highest Christian population |url=https://aleteia.org/2018/07/24/africa-overtakes-latin-america-for-the-highest-christian-population/ |website=Aleteia — Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture |02 May 2020 |language=en |date=24 July 2018}}</ref>  This tremendous growth of [[Christianity]] is from less than an estimated 9 million Christians in Africa as of 1900.<ref>https://www.chvnradio.com/articles/bible-translation-experiencing-boom-amidst-pandemic-in-southern-africa</ref>
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-See also: [[Religion and Africa]]
+{{See also|Religion and Africa}}
 The dominant religion of Arabic-speaking north Africa, is Islam. It replaced Christianity in the 7th century and slowly spread west and south across the Sahara and into the equatorial zones. Today Islam includes about 41% of all Africans.

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 In Africa ethnic groups number in the hundreds.
 [[File:Military agreements with Russia.PNG|right|300px|thumb|African nations with military agreements with the Russian Federation in 2023.]]
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+[[File:Military agreements with Russia.PNG|right|300px|thumb|African nations with military agreements with the Russian Federation in 2023.]]
 In Africa ethnic groups number in the hundreds.

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 ===Social Structure===
 By the 1950s, the native population of the typical Sub-Saharan colony can be analyzed in terms of major groups, from the most powerful to the least.  Of course, the colonial administrators (and their associated businessmen, soldiers and missionaries) were at the top of the scale.
 # The traditional chiefs were the old established elite.
 #There was a very small professional class with European educations, including doctors, lawyers and teachers. Also included were middle-level employees of the colonial bureaucracy.