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For a July 2005 deletion debate see Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Africa (Toto song) 10:31, 19 July 2005 User:NSR

How could there be deletion for a Grammy Award winning song?Jeneral28 (talk) 18:16, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Exactly.Neptune123456 (talk) 16:52, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Looks like a face?

Are you sure this shape has anything to do with human face? I can't see a face there. I think any resemblance to a human face is due to pareidolia, and unintended by authors. If it was intended, a face would be much better visible. Grzes 11:29, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Singer

David Paich does sing the song, it's listed in the album credits. I don't know where someone got the idea that Kimball sang the choruses, I believe he sings them when they do it live, but not on the album. He does sing backing vocals. Someone had also listed at one time that Kimball sang Rosanna, I'm almost certain the Steve Porcaro sang that one. I have the album, I need to find it and read the credits on each song again. ReignMan (talk) 11:47, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Is it David Paich singing lead vocals on this one? The guy singing in the video is playing keyboards in the video for "Rosanna," which would seem to fit Paich. It's clearly not Bobbie Kimball, who has to sit with the rest of the band and shake a maraca in the video. john k 17:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Paich and Kimbal were the originalsJeneral28 (talk) 23:37, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Original research?

This following paragraph seems to be original research, so I have removed it from the article.

The outline on the single's cover art is a visual pun on the shape of the continent of Africa, and it resembles a silhouette of a human face. Notably the face can be identified as an example of the early human Australopithecus africanus.

-- Qarnos 01:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 05:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Another song called "Africa", by Rose Laurens

French singer Rose Laurens had an international hit called "Africa", also in 1983. Possibly to avoid confusion with Toto's song, it is often referred to as "Africa (Voodoo Master)". --217.232.195.43 16:24, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 20:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Song meaning

Unless anyone has statements from the band explaining exactly what the song is about, the current interpretation on the page is original research and should be removed 75.152.156.85 (talk) 07:21, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

UK Chart

The song reached number 3 in the UK charts in February 1983, the same month it hit number 1 in the USA, so I've changed that part of the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.138.88 (talk) 15:41, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Quote

Is the quote of the second section necessary? It is huge and it can be substitute by one explainatory parragraph.--Danielba894 (talk) 03:15, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

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