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''It's gonna take some time to do the things we never haaaaa-aaad, woo-oo''|'''Toto's "Africa"''', a song about a white man trying to write about Africa but struggling because he's never been there. Appropriate, as that's what you probably are.}}

'''Africa''' covers one-fifth of the Earth's land surface and contains 54 countries,<ref>56 if you include the separatist states of Western Sahara and Somaliland, from Morocco and Somalia respectively. While 81 nations recognize Western Sahara, the arguably more legitimate Somaliland has absolutely no recognition from anybody at all.</ref> two thousand languages and upwards of a billion people. Its primary cultural divide is between the Muslim states north of the Sahara, which have more in common with the rest of the Arab world than with the rest of the continent, and "Black Africa" or sub-Saharan Africa further south. There are a ''lot'' of other divisions, though, including the difference between East Africa and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and the transition zones just south of the Sahara: the primarily-Arab [[wikipedia:Sahel|Sahel]] and primarily-African [[wikipedia:Sudan (region)|Sudan]] (which confusingly does not include the country of Sudan, where the people are for the most part physically black but culturally Arab).

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