The African Stonechat is a species of the Old World flycatcher family, inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions. Like the other chats, it was long assigned to the thrush family, to which the chats are convergent. Its scientific name refer to its appearance and habitat and means "collared rock-dweller": Saxicola from Latin saxum + incola, torquatus, Latin for "collared". In the past S. torquatus usually referred to the entire "Common Stonechat" superspecies and some sources still keep it that way, but all available evidence strongly supports full species status for the European and the Siberian Stonechat of temperate Eurasia, in addition to the island-endemics Fuerteventura Chat and Reunion Stonechat which were never unequivocally accepted into S. torquata.

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