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African definition

Af·ri·can (af′ri kən)

adjective

of Africa, esp. sub-Saharan Africa, or its peoples, languages, or cultures

noun

  1. a member of an indigenous ethnic group of Africa, esp. sub-Saharan Africa
  2. a person born or living in Africa

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African Synonyms

African

modif.

Concerning the inhabitants of Africa

Negro, negroid, black.

Terms for specific peoples include: Bantu, Zulu, Swazi, Hutu, Tutsi, Ubangi, Watusi, Dinka, Mandingo, Matabele, Khoikhoi, Hottentot, San, Bushman, Pygmy, Afrikaaner, Boer, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Ashanti, Masai, Kikuyu, Somali, Ethiopian, Egyptian, Nilotic, Nubian, Hamite, Berber, Bedouin, Arab, Moor.


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African Usage Examples

Adjective modifier

  • unofficial: Is the only audience to its the unofficial african.

Modifies a noun

  • gray: However, a death or a young african gray needs explaining and investigation.

Noun used with modifier

  • white: Hispanic whites african left the business providers would alliance health illinois insurance be office visit even.
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African quotes

Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African.

-Geldof, Bob

Now, our music is universal. It shares the rhythmic content of African music, music of the Western Hemisphere and various lands of the East, and has merged this rhythm with European harmonies, the soul of the slaves, the blues, and the spirituals to create jazz.

-Gillespie, Dizzy (John Birks)

The most striking of all the impressions that I have formed since I left London a month ago is of the strength of African national consciousness. In different places it may take different forms, but it is happening everywhere. The wind of change is blowing through this continent.Whether we like it or not, the growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

-Stockton

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