Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Africa

Africa
A regional task force of WikiProject Highways

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Welcome to the African Highways task force of WikiProject Highways. This task force covers the major pan-national, national and sub-national African highway systems and components.

Participants

1. Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs), initial co-founder of the taskforce.
2. Rschen7754 (talk · contribs) - assisting in development of task force
3. Htonl (talk · contribs) - South African highways
4. Tonkie (talk · contribs) - contributing on Moroccan transport-infratstructure, thus including highways in Morocco
5. TapticInfo (talk · contribs) - contributing to South African Road infrastructure
6. Fsmatovu (talk · contribs) - contributing to roads in the African Great Lakes Area
7. TheObservantOne (talk · contribs) - contributing to Namibian and southern Africa roads
8. GeographicAccountant (talk · contribs) - contributing to Zambian & South African Roads
9. Vanderwaalforces (talk · contribs) - contributing to roads in the Giant of Africa, Nigeria and other close African countries

To do

Article alerts

Articles for creation

• 26 Jun 2026 – Draft:Rabat–Casablanca Continental Expressway (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M31242 (t · c)

Guidelines

Tagging and assessment

Any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the project banner for WikiProject Highways. To each of these banners, you should add |africa= yes as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories.

Africa road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
B	2	2	2				6
C	1	1	8	3			13
Start	1	6	140	42		4	193
Stub		5	650	164		15	834
List	1	15	4	7		2	29
Future			26	2			28
Category					134		134
Project					4		4
Redirect		1	4	2	18		25
Template					17		17
Other			2				2
Assessed	5	30	836	220	173	21	1,285
Total	5	30	836	220	173	21	1,285
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,039			Ω = 5.77

Africa road transport articles by quality log

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Highways.

Userbox template

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Africa/Userbox}}

This user is a member of the
African Highways Task Force.

Infobox template

This task force uses {{infobox road}} or {{infobox road junction}} like the parent project.

Stub templates

• {{Road-stub}}
  • {{Africa-road-stub}}
    • {{Nigeria-road-stub}}
    • {{SouthAfrica-road-stub}}
    • Any more specific stub template for each Africa country.

Recognized content

Did you know? articles

• Tema Motorway (2011-06-08)
• Asafo Interchange (2011-06-13)
• Ako Adjei Interchange (2011-06-15)
• Tetteh Quarshie Interchange (2011-06-16)
• M1 (Durban) (2022-12-24)
• AR1 highway (2023-04-26)