Talk:Colonisation of Africa

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Half of the article is the stuff that 172 pasted everywhere.

And that "stuff" pertains to the "colonization of Africa".

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Maybe we could merge all the article you edited in just one ;). I'm not historian do you feel to write something in Algerian War of Independence it's a major lack in Wikipedia. Ericd

A succint page on colonization of Africa is essential. Ericd’s that a separate article on the Algerian War of Independence is needed as well.

172: Go to my user page. There’s a surprise there.

Including Madeira as a colony is absurd, it had no previous indeginous population, present day population is of european descent and it is an autonumous region of Portugal

It's often counted as part of Africa, and it was colonised. Including it make clear sense. Warofdreams talk 01:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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Why is the American spelling of colonization used? Most English-speaking countries in Africa use commonwealth English, so why American?? Aaker 14:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I am American, but I agree. It just seems weird to me to see "Colonisation of Africa" with a "z" instead of an "s". The manual of style seems to agree. I'm going to rename the page. --Tea and crumpets 15:46, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

I have changed all instances of "z" to "s", except in the interwiki links. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 16:16, 24 October 2007 (UTC)