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Lead with what is known about iron use in Africa, and more info on where it was practiced
The article leaps right into a debate on priority - who invented things first and how they diffused. It should instead lead with a broad overview of what is known, and then note that it is also proposed, and debated, exactly where iron use was invented. The term "Africa" is also perhaps too broad, given its size and diversity. What regions were mainly involved, how did it spread internally as well as externally, etc.
★NealMcB★ (
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17:04, 27 February 2017 (UTC)reply
The whole tone at the beginning is incoherent. It first says they were using iron metallurgy 3000 BCE - 2000 BCE, then continue to lower the date as if that is NEW news. Its so obviously racist in its attempt to infer or imply on a reader that it was probably later...tsk tsk. Its odious and transparently odious.
Coldcall (
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11:53, 10 June 2021 (UTC)reply
Also "they" is a bit broad for an entire continent isn't it? Given the range of cultures in sub-Saharan Africa it wouldn't be at all surprising for there to be a range of adoption dates...
82.1.7.156 (
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11:40, 11 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Topic
If this article is titled "Iron metallurgy in Africa", it should cover, well, metallurgy in Africa. I've opted to edit the topic sentence as a result and recommend additional information about North Africa be added. Otherwise, this article should be renamed "Iron metallurgy in Sub Saharan Africa" in order to accurately reflect its contents.