{
 "id": "place/africa",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "africa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "أفريقيا",
  "en": "Africa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "القارة الأفريقية؛ امتد فيها الإسلام من مصر والمغرب إلى الساحل وشرقها.",
  "en": "The African continent, to which Islam spread from Egypt and the Maghreb to the Sahel and the east."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "africa"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  7,
  20
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "region",
  "coordinates": [
   7,
   20
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "Approximate continental centre; flagged for gazetteer verification.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q15",
   "geonames": "6255146"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-a",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q15 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 8,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/ahmed-deedat",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (أفريقي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ahmed-deedat-en",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmed-deedat-ar",
    "source/wikidata-ahmed-deedat",
    "source/wikipedia-king-faisal-prize-en"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ahmed-kathrada",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (أفريقي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-ahmed-kathrada-en",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmed-kathrada-ar",
    "source/wikipedia-ahmed-kathrada-fa",
    "source/wikidata-ahmed-kathrada"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/atiku-abubakar",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Place association from the person's nisba/name (الأفريقي); denotes association, not proven residence.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-atiku-abubakar-en",
    "source/wikipedia-atiku-abubakar-ar",
    "source/wikidata-atiku-abubakar"
   ],
   "confidence": "low"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/toumani-diabate",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-toumani-diabate"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Wikidata P937 work location (Wikidata Q15)"
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "award/king-faisal-prize",
  "place/bamako",
  "person/ahmed-deedat",
  "person/ahmed-kathrada",
  "person/atiku-abubakar",
  "person/toumani-diabate"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}