African Studies: African Studies Guide: Home

Many computers are equipped with dual-alphabet keyboards (English QWERTY and Arabic) to assist you with your research. 

To use/enable the Arabic keyboard on a Windows 11 machine:

1. Click Start or press the Windows logo key
2. Open the Settings app
3. Click Time & Language
4. Choose the Language & region tab
5. Click Add a language
6. Search for Arabic. You can choose a specific dialect from a country
7. Keep clicking ok to download and exit out of the setup process

You will now see an EN to the right of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. You can click it to switch between EN (English) and AR (Arabic).

To use/enable the Arabic keyboard on a Mac:

1. Open System Preferences from the Apple menu
2. Select Keyboard
3. Click the Input Sources tab
4. Click the + button in the bottom left corner
5. Scroll down and select Arabic
6. Click Add

North Africa

 

Sub-Saharan Africa

Eastern Africa

[note: Sudan may be considered Eastern or Northern Africa depending on the context. For instance, the nation is considered Eastern in the African Union, but Northern according to the United Nations.]

 

Middle Africa

 

Southern Africa

 

Western Africa

 

Sovereign states with limited or no international recognition

 

 

There also remain a number of European-ruled island nations in Africa, such as the Canary Isles (Britain) and Azores (Portugal).

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List compiled through the World Integrated Trade Solution/World Bank.

 

Linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#/media/File:Africa_(orthographic_projection).svg