Slavery in Africa

Quality:

Slavery in Africa - historical slavery in Africa. Article “Slavery in Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 44.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Slavery in Africa”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1023 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 26 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3375 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1324 in June 2025
• Global: #4293 in March 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #41277 in February 2026
• Global: #2994 in April 2015

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Spanish (es) Esclavitud en África		100
2	Ukrainian (uk) Рабство в Африці		100
3	Catalan (ca) Esclavatge a Àfrica		100
4	Basque (eu) Esklabotza Afrikan		100
5	English (en) Slavery in Africa		97.5264
6	Turkish (tr) Afrika'da kölelik		96.7957
7	Japanese (ja) アフリカの奴隷制		90.3256
8	French (fr) Esclavage en Afrique		86.0133
9	Galician (gl) Escravitude en África		81.6389
10	Hebrew (he) עבדות באפריקה		76.8247

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slavery in Africa		4 698 697
2	Portuguese (pt) Escravidão em África		1 682 736
3	French (fr) Esclavage en Afrique		596 772
4	Spanish (es) Esclavitud en África		355 959
5	Italian (it) Schiavismo in Africa		230 839
6	Russian (ru) Рабство в Африке		164 983
7	German (de) Sklaverei innerhalb von Subsahara-Afrika		160 472
8	Arabic (ar) تجارة العبيد الأفارقة		95 873
9	Turkish (tr) Afrika'da kölelik		35 280
10	Lithuanian (lt) Afrikos vergų prekyba		28 049

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Slavery in Africa		11 781
2	French (fr) Esclavage en Afrique		1 488
3	Spanish (es) Esclavitud en África		1 002
4	Portuguese (pt) Escravidão em África		929
5	Japanese (ja) アフリカの奴隷制		844
6	Russian (ru) Рабство в Африке		481
7	Italian (it) Schiavismo in Africa		402
8	German (de) Sklaverei innerhalb von Subsahara-Afrika		377
9	Turkish (tr) Afrika'da kölelik		344
10	Chinese (zh) 非洲奴隸買賣		225

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Slavery in Africa		456
2	Portuguese (pt) Escravidão em África		118
3	French (fr) Esclavage en Afrique		99
4	German (de) Sklaverei innerhalb von Subsahara-Afrika		71
5	Italian (it) Schiavismo in Africa		65
6	Spanish (es) Esclavitud en África		41
7	Hebrew (he) עבדות באפריקה		29
8	Turkish (tr) Afrika'da kölelik		20
9	Arabic (ar) تجارة العبيد الأفارقة		15
10	Ukrainian (uk) Рабство в Африці		14

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Slavery in Africa		5
2	French (fr) Esclavage en Afrique		2
3	Catalan (ca) Esclavatge a Àfrica		1
4	Basque (eu) Esklabotza Afrikan		1
5	Galician (gl) Escravitude en África		1
6	Serbian (sr) Ropstvo u Africi		1
7	Turkish (tr) Afrika'da kölelik		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Рабство в Африці		1
9	Chinese (zh) 非洲奴隸買賣		1
10	Arabic (ar) تجارة العبيد الأفارقة		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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