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Less attention is given to the study of the central African climate, such that many concepts were imported from other regions of the globe. This study underlines misleading information due to the simplistic view of mechanisms driving annual rainfall regime based on the intertropical convergence zone concept, and presents recent advances in regional climate dynamics and modeling. Up‐to‐date findings highlight links between major African climatic features such as Saharan heat low and Angola heat low and central African climate, which was unexplored due to the fragmented approach used to investigate African climate. In addition, the role of lows’ related features as shallow meridional circulations and mid‐tropospheric easterly jets were underlined, but remain understudied. This underlines the need of an integrated approach to provide an improvement in the understanding of central African climate, thereby breaking the rigid regional view of the continent’s climate system. Investigations demonstrate that intense observation campaigns are required to explain singularities of central African climate and improve understanding of mechanisms prevailing in this region.