User:Iamshiba/WikiProject

Welcome to the Mount Makeda WikiProject: Contemporary African Musicians.

Scope

This WikiProject covers topics around contemporary music of Africa such as artists from Africa, their albums and songs along with any other related topics.

From the Africa WikiProject page:

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Africa and maintaining such articles in a neutral and accurate manner.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Africa in Wikipedia.
• Create and improve guidelines for articles about items related to Africa.
• Improve and maintain the navigation aids (tables of contents and indexes) for Africa-related topics on Wikipedia. See: Index of Africa-related articles, Outline of Africa, and Category:Africa.

As of 16 May 2024, there are 106,544 articles within the scope of WikiProject Africa, of which 185 are featured. This makes up 1.56% of the articles on Wikipedia and 1.71% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 415,688 pages in the project.

We estimate articles about contemporary African musicians are a fraction of this number and wish to improve these statistics.

Participants

1. Iamshiba (talk · contribs)
2. Heathart (talk · contribs)
3. Fishantena (talk · contribs)
4. Raggachampiongirl (talk · contribs)
5. Halimahart (talk · contribs)
6. Nikitag94 (talk · contribs)
7. missrobynhood (talk · contribs)
8. Kokrantumi (talk · contribs)

Task List

To do list for members of Mount Makeda WikiProject:

• Create needed articles.
• Tag related articles.
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
• Identify articles for creation
• Identify articles for improvement
• Review importance and quality of existing articles.

Anyone can suggest artist pages for revision and/or creation in the section below!

WikiProject: Mount Makeda's task list is a crowd-sourced, project-specific list that focuses on important Contemporary African Musicians, their albums, photos, and related items.

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✓ Please check with a WikiFacilitator before starting new pages – recommend beginners start by editing existing pages vs. starting new pages

Kenya:

• Just A Band

• Blinky Bill

• Karun

Ghana:

• Amaarae
• King Promise
• RJZ
• Gyakie
• Herman Suede
• Twitch 4EVA
• Camidoh
• Tulenkey
• Epixode
• Bosom P-Yung
• Kweku Smoke
• OV
• Quamina MP
• Obibini
• Bryan The Mensah
• BiQo
• Mr Drew
• Larruso
• J.Derobie
• Cocotreyy
• Kofi Jamar
• Kayso
• Klu

La Reunion:

• Saya
• Aurus
• Maya Kamaty

Namibia:

• Lioness
• Kp Illest
• Gazza
• Black Vulcanite

Niger (standout genre: Tuareg):

• Mdou Moctar
• Bombino
• Oumou Sangare
• Tinariwen
• Songhoy Blues

Nigeria (standout genres: Afrobeat/s, Fuji, Alte):

• Pheelz The Producer
• Antibalas
• Rema (Nigerian musician)
• Kel-P
• Alhaji Kolynton
• Lagbaja
• Mr Eazi
• [[Killertunes]]

Sao Tome and Principe (standout genres: Puxa, Rebita):

• Leoninos
• Tiana Lima
• Manjelegua
• Quibanzas
• Africa Negra
• Joao Seria

Senegal (standout. Genre: Mbalax):

• Youssou N'Dour
• Etoile de Dakar
• Coumba Gawlo
• Ismael Lô
• Baaba Maal

Seychelles (stand out genre:  Mouggae and Seggae):

• Jean Marc Volcy
• Jenny Letourdie
• May-Cécile Lajoie
• Dezil
• Felix Lawen
• Ras Do

Sierra Leone (standout genres: Gumbe, Maringa):

• Markmuday
• Dr Oloh
• Mana Musa
• Lindel Lewis
• African Connexion
• Ebenezer Calendar

Somalia (standout genres: Gabay, Jiifto):

• Aar Manta
• Hibo Nura
• Hibotep
• Ahmed Ismail Hussein
• George Mgrdichian

South Africa (Standout genres: Gqom, Amapiano):

• Bongeziwe Mabandla
• Sun El Musician
• DJ Lag
• Zoe Modiga

South Sudan:

• Anataban
• Ekikompola Rebecca Trey
• Yaba Angelosi
• Manny Joe
• Sultan Clintone
• Emmanual Kembe
• Mr. Leng
• Mary Mboyo
• Kawaja Revolution
• Dynamq

Swaziland:

• Bholoja
• Sands (needs creating)
• MUZI
• Carl Crack

Togo:

• Eric MC (Ayaovi Éric Mensah)
• Bella Bellow
• Mabah
• Afia Mala
• Fifi Rafiatou
• Omar B

Zambia (standout genre: Zamrock):

• Jay Rox
• Amanaz
• WITCH (We Intend to Cause Havoc) +images
• Ngozi Family
• Born Free (needs creating)

Zimbabwe (standout genres: Ragga, Dancehall):

• Gemma Griffifths
• Jackie Queens
• Thomas Mapfumo
• Bantu (needs creating)
• Ammara Brown
• Winky D

Resources

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Tips

Further information: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music)

?	Use common sense. Ultimately, assume good faith on the part of others, be bold in editing because perfection is not required. See Wikipedia:Editing policy for more information. Before starting a new article! - Notability is a concern that must be adhered to. See Wikipedia:Notability (music) for more information. Need help starting a new article? See Wikipedia:Article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
I.	Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted if unreferenced or referenced poorly. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References for more information.
II.	Use proper spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. "We want to learn editors to write proper" There are helpful guidelines in regards to styles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (music) for more information.
III.	Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV.	Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs, which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subjects in question. See Wikipedia:Lead section for more information.
V.	Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this. See Wikipedia:The perfect article for more information.
VI.	Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII.	Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.