Talk:Sahel
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== This page definitely needs a map. I checked the Commons and all the maps of Africa are old. I wonder if Wikipedia can get an open source atlas going or even buy the rights to an atlas at least for the continent level. 04:29, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have been trying to move the Sahel_Africa article back to Sahel because it should not have been moved. I think it shoul be classified as a type C case (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation) and instead of moving it to Sahel Africa there a note about the Tunisian province could have been added.
I moved the disambiguation page at Sahel here to make room for a move of Sahel Africa back to Sahel, it obviously did not work and its all quite a mess right now. Maybe I'll fix it later, until then, please do as you please! --Dittaeva 14:10, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
"The countries of the Sahel today include Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia." If you take a closer look at the map, you can see it excludes several ones mentioned in the list. There should be some coherence, this way or another. --Oop 14:26, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Undoing a redirect
The discussion page for Sahel currently redirects here. How to undo that so that it has its own discussion page? --A12n 00:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC) +)+)+)+)+)++)+)+)+)+)=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=00=0+0=0=0=0=0=0=00=00000000000000000=0=0=0==0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0==0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0==0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=0=
[edit] Flora
I removed the txt about the juju tree. It was under geography. If folks want to add a flora section, they might want to take a look at Category:Flora of Africa, and some of these:
Might want to integrate these:
"The Sahel type of the Savannah which is also known as the semi-desert vegetation that becomes manifest from the middle of the state as one moves from the south to the northern part of the state. The characteristic of this type of vegetation comprises isolated stands of thorny shrubs."
"Agriculturally, the first cases of domestication of plants for agricultural purposes occurred in the Sahel region circa 5000 BC, when sorghum and African rice began to be cultivated. Around this time, and in the same region, the small guinea fowl became domesticated.
According to the Oxford Atlas of World History, in the year 4000 BC the climate of the Sahara started to become drier at an exceedingly fast pace.[2] This climate change caused lakes and rivers to shrink rather significantly and caused increasing desertification. This, in turn, decreased the amount of land conducive to settlements and helped to cause migrations of farming communities to the more tropical climate of West Africa.[3]"
At least a link to Afrotropic ecozone and Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel
Just some fodder for those who know the subject. :T L Miles 16:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC) =='''''''Bold text'Bold text'
[edit] sahel
the sahel is kind of fat and i think that the afganastans are big ripoff —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.156.233.152 (talk) 01:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] the sahel
it is so sad the sahel is shrinking by so much every year no thanks to poachers —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.75.94.112 (talk) 00:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Etymology
Pay attention: the usual interpretation of sahel as "border or coast of the Sahara desert" is wrong. The name comes from a misunderstanding by French scientists who considered sahel as a proper name of a region, while it was simply an indigenous term meaning "north". More details in it:Sahel and in the references cited there.--Vermondo (talk) 19:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
