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A-frame
A sawhorse, which is an A-frame structure. An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner. The simplest form of an A-frame is two similarly sized materials laid up against one another, and attached at the top in a convenient fashion. These materials ..
A-F Records
A-F Records is an independent record label originated by the band Anti-Flag, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. This label was created to help expose more political punk rock bands to a greater audience. They have formerly been distributed on Mordam, but moved to RedEye when Mordam was bought..
AFR
AFR is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: annualized failure rateThe Australian Financial ReviewAir-fuel ratio, a relative measure of air and fuel in internal combustion enginesThe ICAO designation for Air Franceaccident frequency rate, a measure of safety perfor..
AfraCityLink
AfraCityLink is an airline based in Accra in Ghana, currently operating domestic services and expanding onto West African routes. History AfraCityLink is the result of a co-operative agreement between Afra Airlines and CTK - CiTylinK to enable new services on domestic routes in Ghana and to open W..
Afraflacilla
Afraflacilla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Species Afraflacilla antineae (Denis, 1954) (Algeria)Afraflacilla asorotica (Simon, 1890) (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Yemen)Afraflacilla bamakoi Berland & Millot, 1941 (Sudan)Afraflacilla berlandi Denis, 1955 (Libya)Afraflacill..
Afragola
Afragola (Neapolitan: Afravola) is an city of southern Italy. It is situated in Campania, in the province of Naples, between the territories corresponding to the ancient cities of Acerra and Atella. It's one of the 100 biggest Italian cities (the ones which have a population of more than 50,000 inha..
Afrah Shafquat
Afrah Shafquat (b. August 25 1990) of Karachi, Pakistan, has achieved success as a very young computer programmer. She has received many certifications and awards and it considered to be an inspirational hero in Pakistan in its efforts to develop an Information Technology industrial base. Informal..
Afraid (David Bowie song)
"Afraid" is a song written by David Bowie for the album Heathen in 2002. It was originally intended for the unreleased album Toy in 2001. Video footage of Mark Plati and Bowie recording the demo of the song is available on [BowieNet]. Live versions The song was played live on the Heathen..
Afraid of Sunlight (album)
Afraid of Sunlight is Marillion's eighth studio album, released in 1995. It would be their last for EMI. While not a concept album as such, Afraid of Sunlight examines the destructive side of celebrity. In particular, "Afraid of Sunlight" relates to the likes of James Dean, while "Out Of This Wor..
Aframomum melegueta
The term Grains of Paradise refers to a West African spice obtained from the plant Aframomum melegueta (Ginger family, Zingiberaceae) which gives pungent, peppery flavor. It is also known as Guinea pepper, Melegueta pepper, alligator pepper and Guinea grains. Aframomum melegueta is a herbaceous ..
Afram Plains District
Afram Plains District Region Eastern District type Ordinary District Chief Executive Solomon Yaw Fordjour Capital Donkorkrom Area 3,559 km² Population (2002) 135,926 ISO 3166 GH-EP-AP The Afram Plains District is a district of Ghana in the Eastern Region. Sources [Districts o..
Afram River
The Afram River is a 100km river in Ghana. Prior to the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s, the Afram was a principal tributary of the Volta River and today is an equally important tributary of Lake Volta. The river runs roughly in a southwesterly direction. ..
Afrana
Afrana is a genus of true frogs. Species Afrana amieti (Laurent, 1976).Afrana angolensis (Bocage, 1866).Afrana desaegeri (Laurent, 1972).Afrana dracomontana (Channing, 1978).Afrana fuscigula (Duméril & Bibron, 1841).Afrana inyangae (Poynton, 1966).Afrana johnstoni (Günther, 1894).Afrana ruwenzo..
Afrancesado
Afrancesado (pl. afrancesados; "Francophiles" or "turned-French") was the term used to denote Spanish and Portuguese partisans of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, who were supporters of the French occupation of Iberia and of the First French Empire. Contents 1 Sp..
Afrand
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Afrand is a Persian female name, which means splendi..
Afrânio Coutinho
Afrânio Coutinho(March 15, 1911 - August 5, 2000) was a Brazilian critic and essayist. He encouraged the rise of the "New Criticism" in Brazil of the 1950s. ..
Afrasiab
Afrasiab (Uzbek: , Turkish: , Persian: ), near Samarkand, Uzbekistan is both a historical city and its legendary founder. The person Afrasiab, is said to be king of all Turan is mentioned in Persia's classic epic, Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of Kings'), where the legendary hero-king battles a lege..
Afrasiab Khattak
Afrasiab Khattak is a former student leader, Pakistani politician, writer and prominent human rights activist. He has been the president of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), which is believed to be the largest human rights organisation in the country. Khattak hails from Karak in southern..
Afra Airlines
Afra Airlines was an airline established in Accra in Ghana in 2003. It was formed as a new consumer airline to be focused on providing efficient, low-cost air services to and from destinations within Ghana, Africa, Europe and North America. History Afra Airlines was awarded its Air Carriers licence..
Afra Mall
Afra Mall (Arabic: مركز عفراء التجاري translated as Afra Shopping Centre) is the first shopping mall in Sudan located in Khartoum. Opened on February 21, 2004, the mall has an area of 30,000 m² with an indoor and outdoor parking facility, as well as an outdoor children playground..
AFRC
AFRC can be an acronym for: Agricultural and Food Research CouncilAir Force Reserve CommandArmed Forces Revolutionary CouncilArmed Forces Recreation Center redirect[[Template:Disambig]]..
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Afric'Air Charter
Afric'Air Charter is an airline based in Benin. Code Data IATA Code: 7AICAO Code: AFFCallsign: Benin Charters Lists of Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraft engines | Aircraft engine manufacturers | Airlines | Air forces | Aircraft weapons | Missiles | Timeline of aviation ..
Africa
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, correspondi..
Africa's Blood
Africa's Blood is an album by The Upsetters, released in 1972. Track listing Side one "Do Your Thing" – Dave Barker"Dream Land""Long Sentence""Not Guilty""Cool And Easy""Well Dread Version 3" – Addis Ababa Children"My Girl"Side two "Saw Dust""Place Called Africa Version 3" – Winston Prince"..
Africa's Next Supermodel
Africas Next SuperModel is a reality television show organized by Beauties of Africa Inc which selects 16 Black and Beautiful; and African Models regardless of where they live and national origins, pits them against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contrac..
Africa-Eurasia
Africa-Eurasia plus associated islands. Africa-Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia, is a supercontinent and the world's largest landmass, containing around 85% of the human population. It is typically subdivided by the Suez Canal into the continents of Africa and Eurasia, the latter of which has been his..
Africa@home
Africa@home is a website for volunteer computing projects which allow your computer to contribute to African humanitarian causes. Africa@home is sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), having received an initial grant of SFr 46,000. The Malaria Control Project (MCP) is a gri..
African-American grandmother
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African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust
The African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust is a charity that aims to raise awareness of leukaemia within the African Caribbean community in the United Kingdom. The trust was founded in the London Borough of Croydon in June 1996 by Beverley De Gale, the mother of Daniel De Gale, who was then suffering fr..
Africana
Africana is a catch-all term referring to history and culture of Africa and to materials chronicling these topics. Africana.com was also a web portal for the African Diaspora that was bought by AOL and later merged into AOL's Black Voices web portal service, effective January 31, 2005. It was found..
Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute
The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute (ACPSI) is a professional organization that promotes an academic analysis of Africana cultures and policies under the rubric of various disciplines commonly referred to as Africana Studies, Black Studies, Africology, and other designations. This I..
Africando
Africando is a musical project formed in 1990 to unite New York-based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists. Subsequently, under the name Africando All Stars, musicians from other African countries were included. Salsa has been a hugely popular style in Central and West Africa since the 1940..
Africanis
The Africanis is a group of South African dogs not recognised as a breed. It is believed to be of ancient origin, directly descended from hounds and pariah dogs of ancient Africa, introduced into the Nile Valley from the Levant. The Swahili name for the breed is umbwa wa ki-shenzi meaning common or..
Africanism
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Africanisms
Africanisms refers to charateristics of African culture and people that can be traced through societal practices and institutions of the African diaspora. A widely cited example is the Gullah language or Gullah dialect of the South Sea Islands off the United States' South Carolina and Georgia, whic..
Africanism All Stars
Africanism All Stars is a France based project consisting of the most well known DJs and mixers in France, who collaborate with African-based artists and acts. Among the artists involved include Bob Sinclar, David Guetta, Yves Larock, DJ Gregory, Malinga Five, Joachim Garraud, Tim Deluxe, KC Flight..
Africanist
Africanist may refer to: A specialist in African studiesAnti-apartheid activists during Apartheid in South Africa This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point di..
Africanization
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Africanization, as used in this article, refers to the modification of place names or personal names to better..
Africanized bee
Africanized honeybees (AHB), also known as “killer bees", are hybrids of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii (or by other reports A. mellifera scutellata), with various European honeybees such as the Italian bee Apis mellifera ligustica. The Africanized bees in the western hemispher..
Africanus
Africanus is a cognomen of ancient Rome associated with the gens Scipio, especially Scipio Major and his grandson (by adoption) Scipio Minor, who were major players in the Punic Wars against Carthage. It may also refer to Leo Africanus (1488–1554). ..
Africanus Horton
Africanus Horton (1835-1883), also known as James Beale, was a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone. Africanus was born to Igbo parents near Freetown, Sierra Leone as James Horton; he later assumed the name of "Beale" after his grammar school headmaster and the name "Africanus." Due to the hars..
African (song)
African is a song by Peter Tosh from his 1977 album Equal Rights. The lyrics of the song have strong pan african leanings. In it Tosh says black people the world over have an African identity. the lyrics for the song are: Don't care where you come from As long as you're a black man You're an Afr..
African Academy of Languages
The African Academy of Languages (Fr.: Académie Africaine des Langues, or ACALAN) is a Pan-African organization founded in 2001 by Mali's then-president Alpha Oumar Konaré, under the auspices of the African Union, for the harmonization of Africa's many spoken languages. The first, and current, pre..
African Academy of Sciences
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is an Africa-wide scientists organisation. It serves firstly to honour African scientists who have become internationally renowned through their efforts in their respective fields, and secondly to encourage the development of the research and technology base thr..
African Adventure
African Adventure is a 1963 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his characters Hal and Roger Hunt. ..
African aesthetic
The factual accuracy of this article is [Accuracy disputedisputed]. Please see the relevant discussion on the [ African Art in Motion by ..
African American
redirect [[Template:Sprotected]] The "Mississippi Freedom Summer" of 1964 brought thousands of idealistic youth, black and white, to the state to run "freedom schools," to teach basic literacy, history and civics. Other volunteers were involved in voter registration drives. The season was marked ..
African Americans and the G.I. Bill
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African Americans at Siege of Petersburg
A company of 4th USCT Infantry African Americans at Siege of Petersburg Contents 1 In Petersburg2 Serving the Confederacy3 Serving the Union: U.S. Colored Troops in the Siege4 At City Point5 External link In Petersburg At the beginning of the Civil War, Virginia had..
African Americans in the United States Congress
Joseph Rainey, first black member of the U.S. House of Representatives Since 1870 there have been 106 African American members of the United States Congress. This figure includes five non-voting members of the House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin I..
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African American Civil War Memorial
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African American contemporary issues
In many instances, when there are white children living within the areas served by failing schools, their families send them to higher-performing, out-of-boundary public schools, or to charter, magnet or private schools. Although a significant number of African-American children are served by belo..
African American culture
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African American history
African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as black Americans. The majority of African-Americans are the descendants of enslaved Africans transported from West and Central Africa to the States during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Others have arrived ..
African American leftism
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African American literature
The Color Purple by Alice Walker African American literature is literature written by, about, and sometimes specifically for African Americans. The genre began during the 18th and 19th centuries with writers such as poet Phillis Wheatley and orator Frederick Douglass, reached an early high poi..
African American Lives
African American Lives is a PBS television show hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. focusing on African American genealogical research. It aired in February 2006, and included research into the ancestral lineages of nine prominent African Americans: Gates, Whoopi Goldberg, Quincy Jones, Dr. Sarah Lawre..
African American Museum in Philadelphia
redirect[[Template:Portal]]The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) opened in 1976 in celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was the first major museum in the country devoted specifically to African American history and traditions un..
African American music
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African American Musical Theater
Most believe that the history of black musical theatre begins with loud- laffin' negros who donned blackface makeup and baggy clothes and shuffled around stage eatin' chicken n watermelon. Many forget Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk and A Trip to Coontown, in 1898 and think that the history o..
African American National Biography Project
The African American National Biography Project is a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press. Editors are Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The object of the project is to publish and maintain a data..
African American studies
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African American Theme House
The African American Theme House is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California. It is part of the USCA coop system. External links [] at [USCA.org] ..
African American vernacular dance
African American vernacular dances are those dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies. African American vernacular dances are usually centered on social dance practice, though performance dance and concert ..
African American Vernacular English
This article uses the third. With non-stative verbs, the role of been is simple: it places the action in the distant past, or represents total completion of the action. A Standard English equivalent is to add "a long time ago". For example, She been told me that translates as, "She told me that a..
African anarchism
Part of the Politics series onAnarchism Traditions Anarcha-feminism Anarchist communism Anarcho-primitivism Anarcho-syndicalism Christian anarchism Collectivist anarchism Eco-anarchism Green anarchism Individualist anarchism Anarcho-capitalism(disputed) Anarchism in culture Anarchi..
African archaeology
The continent of Africa has the longest record of human activity of any part of the world and along with its geographical extent, it contains an enormous archaeological resource. Scholars have studied Egyptology for centuries but archaeologists have only paid serious attention to the rest of the con..
African armyworm
The African armyworm (Spodoptera exempata), also sometimes called okalombo or Kommandowurm or nutgrass armyworm, is an African moth. It is a very deleterious pest, capable of destroying entire crops in a matter of weeks. The ivory eggs of the African armyworm are laid in clusters on leaves, usual..
African arowana
The African arowana (Heterotis niloticus) is one of seven members of the arowana family that is rarely imported for the home aquarist. The only plankton-feeding osteoglossid, in captivity it is known to be willing to accept dry, floating pellets on a regular basis and, in fact, sometimes does not ..
African art
Makonde carving c.1974 A sculpture in ebony. African art is any form of art or material culture that originates from the continent of Africa. This article discusses primarily visual art; for information on African music, see Music of Africa. The arts and material culture of the Af..
African Autonomist Movement
African Autonomist Movement (in French: Mouvement Autonomiste Africain) was a political party in French West Africa, led by Amadou Ba. It was formed after the fall of the Vichy regime. Reference Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988. ..
African Banking Corporation
African Banking Corporation was a British Overseas Bank, that is, it had a headquarters in London but all its branches were overseas. Unusually, it was a consortium bank (i.e., other banks jointly owned it), rather than being owned by individuals. It operated primarily in South Africa. In 1890 Llo..
African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc.
The African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. is the oldest continuously existing Baptist organization in the Republic of Malawi, with roots in the earliest mission work of Joseph Booth (1892) and is a successor to the Providence Baptist Mission (1900). In 1891, the British government established th..
African beer
African beer refers to beer made in Africa. It can refer to beer brewed by indigenous local tribes or people of certain geographic areas in Africa or to commercially produced brands of beer in Africa. Contents 1 Indigenous beers2 Commercial beers2.1 Southern Africa2.2 Eastern..
African birdseye
Heat : Very Hot (SR: 50,000-175,000) African birdseye (or African devil or African red devil) is a cultivar of the chili pepper that grows both wild and domesticated. It is a small and extremely spicy member of the capsicum plant genus. The plants are usually very bushy and grow in height..
African Blackwood
African Blackwood or Mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea and south to the Transvaal in South Africa. It is a small tree, reaching 4-15 m tall, with grey bark and spiny shoots. The leav..
African Black Duck
The African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) is a species of duck of the genus Anas. The Anas sparsa is an entirely black duck with only two marks on its back. It lives in central and southern Africa.It is also known as the African black duck, black duck, black river duck, West African black duck, South ..
African Black Oystercatcher
The African Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus moquini, is a large wader which is a resident breeder on the rocky coasts and islands of southern Africa. This oystercatcher has a population of less than 5,000 adults. The African Black Oystercatcher is a large and noisy plover-like bird, with complet..
African Blood Brotherhood
The African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) was a radical black liberation organization of the early 20th century which developed ties to the Communist Party. The group was a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret fraternity, organized in "posts" with a centralized national organization ba..
African British
African British is a term used to describe the community previously described as Afro-Caribbean, Black British, UK Black, Coloured and Black. It embraces all British nationals with antecedents originating directly from Africa or indirectly via African diasporic communities, such as those in the Cari..
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
The African Brush-Tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus) is a species of rat-like Old World porcupine called "brush-tailed porcupines". The brush-tailed porcupines live in forests, usually at high elevations. They are nocturnal and during the day they sleep in caves and burrows. The brush-tailed p..
African Buffalo
The African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a bovid from the family of the Bovidae. It is up to 1.7 meters high, 3.4 meters long, and can reach a weight of 900 kilograms. An African Buffalo Bull. The Cape Buffalo is not closely related to the Asian Water Buffalo, but its ancestry..
African Burial Ground National Monument
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African Bush Elephant
The African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the better-known and larger of the two species of African elephants. Both it and the African Forest Elephant were previously classified as a single species, known simply as the African Elephant. It is also known as the Bush Elephant or Savanna Elep..
African campaigns of World War II
There were several separate African campaigns during World War II. Allied forces fought Axis forces, between 1940 and 1943, both on the African mainland and in nearby waters and islands. These campaigns are linked simply by the fact of their location in or near Africa. Naval conflict was the first ..
African Central Bank
The African Central Bank (ACB) is one of the three financial institutions of the African Union. It will over time take over responsibilites of the African Monetary Fund. The creation of the ACB, to be completed by 2028 was first agreed upon in the 1991 Abuja Treaty. The 1999 Sirte Declaration calle..
African Century
The African Century is a term that has a variety of meanings. First, the term expresses the belief that the 21st century will bring peace, prosperity and cultural revival to the African continent, or is used to draw attention to the need of such an evolution. It is used in this way by among others T..
African characters in comics
Characters native to the African continent have been depicted in comics since the beginnings of the modern comic strip. Initially, such early 20th-century newspaper comics as Winsor McCay's Little Nemo depicted the racist stereotype of a spear-carrying cannibal, a comedic convention of the time. Afr..
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that seeks to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent. It emerged under the aegis of the Organisation of African Unity (since replace..
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child was adopted by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1990. The Charter defines a "child" as a human being below the age of 18 years. It recognises the child's unique and privileged place in African society and that African children ne..
African cherry orange
The African cherry orange Citropsis schweinfurthii (Engl.), also known as the West African cherry orange Citropsis articulata (Willd.)[link] or Uganda cherry orange is a small citrus fruit about the size of a tangerine, native to Africa and used primarily for eating and in African tradi..
African Children's Choir
The African Children's Choir is a large choir made up of children ages 7 to 11 from several African nations. The choir has included children from Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and the nKomazi region in South Africa. Many of the children have lost one or both parents to AIDS and other poverty-related dise..
African Christian Democratic Party
The African Christian Democratic Party is a political party in South Africa . It was founded in 1993 and claims to represent "Bible believing Christians" and "those who have a high regard for moral values". As such the party concentrates mostly on "moral" issues such as abortion, homosexuality and..
African cinema
AFRICAN CINEMA Cinema of Burkina FasoCinema of NigeriaCinema of South Africa The term African cinema usually refers to the film production in countries south of the Sahara since they gained formal independence, which for many countries happened in the 1960s. Some of the countries which ..
African Civet
The African Civet is a common viverrid that ranges across tropical Africa. Unlike many other members of the family, which resemble cats, the African Civet resembles a short dog-like animal. Its coarse coat varies but is usually an ornate pattern of black and white contrasting bands and blotches, w..
African clawed frog
The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis, also known as platanna) is a species of South African aquatic frog of the genus Xenopus. It is up to 12 cm long with a flattened head and body but no tongue. Its name derives from its three short claws on each of its hind feet, which it probably uses to sti..
African code
The African code is a ethos which governs progressive African organizations. The African Code is the fundamental intersection of common cultural ideas and ideals, which serve as the fundamental bases of global African organizational unity for progressive action. It has been translated into over 30 A..
African Collared Dove
The African Collared Dove (Streptopelia roseogrisea) is a small dove found in Africa in the arid region south of the Sahara. Its range extends in a band right across the continent, and into southern Arabia. Although it lives in arid lands, it is found around water sources. This bird is typically..
African Commission
The Commission of the African Union acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the AU (and is somewhat analogous to the European Commission). It consists of a number of Commissoners dealing with different areas of policy. The Commission is headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is a supranational body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples') rights throughout the African continent. It was originally an agency of the Organisation of African Unity, but following the June 2002 tr..
African Conservation Foundation
The African Conservation Foundation is working towards the protection and conservation of Africa's endangered wildlife and their habitats. Founded in 1999, ACF fills a unique niche by creating an Africa-wide network for information exchange and capacity building of conservation efforts in the region..
African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance
The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, formerly the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), is a United States program to train military trainers and equip African national militaries to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief. The ACOTA pr..
African Convention
African Convention (in French: Convention Africaine) was a political party in French West Africa. The CA was formed at a meeting in Dakar on January 11 1957. The CA constisted of the Senegalese Popular Bloc (BPS) of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the African Popular Movement of Nazi Boni in Upper Volta a..
African Corkwood
The African Corkwood Tree (Musanga cecropioides), also known as the Umbrella tree, is found in Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and eastward to Uganda. It is typical in secondary forests. This tree is also known as Parasolier, N'Govoge, Doe, Umbrella Tree, kombo-kombo, musanga, musanda and Govw..
African Court of Justice
The African Court of Justice will at some point in the future be merged with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and be the African Union's legal organ. The seat of the Court will be situated in Eastern Africa. Kenya, Uganda and Mauritius have expressed interest in hosting the court. ..
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights will merge with the African Court of Justice in the future, it will be situated in Eastern Africa and will rule on human rights abuses under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and under general international human rights law, currently, th..
African Cricket Association
The African Cricket Association is an international body which oversees cricket in African countries. The ACA was founded in 1997, and has 20 member countries. ACA member nations } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } } ..
African Cup of Champions Clubs
The African Cup of Champions Clubs was a pan-African soccer tournament which ran from 1964-1996. It was replaced by the CAF Champions League in 1997. Winners 1964 - Oryx Douala (CAM)1965 - not held1966 - Stade Abidjan (CIV)1967 - TP Englebert (COD)1968 - TP Englebert (COD)1969 - Al-Ismaily (EGY)197..
African Cup of Nations
The African Cup of Nations is the main international football competition for CAF nations. It has been held every two years with some irregular intervals. In the first African Cup of Nations in 1957, there were only three participating nations: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia (South Africa was to compete..
African Cup Winners' Cup
The African Cup Winners' Cup is a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of national competitions in CAF-affiliated nations. Winners *1975: Tonnerre Yaoundé *1976: Shooting St..
African D
African D (Ɖ, ɖ) is a Latin letter representing the voiced retroflex plosive [ɖ]. Its lower-case form is also used to represent this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet. On computers, it is represented by the Unicode code points U+0189 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AFRICAN D) and U+..
African dance
The term African dance referrs mainly to the dances of subsaharan Africa. The music and dances of northern Africa and the Sahara are generally more closely connected to those of the Near East. Also the dances of immigrants of European and Asian descent (e.g. in South Africa) are not covered by this ..
African Darter
The African Darter (Anhinga rufa ), sometimes called the Snakebird, is a water bird of tropical sub-Saharan Africa. This species builds a stick nest in a tree and lays 3-6 eggs. It often nests with herons, egrets and cormorants. It is a cormorant-like fish-eating species with a very long neck w..
African Democratic Rally
The African Democratic Rally (French: Rassemblement Démocratique Africain) was a political party in French West Africa, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Founded in Bamako in 1946, the RDA quickly became one of the most important forces for independence in the region. Initially a Pan-Africanist mo..
African Democratic Rally (Burkina)
The African Democratic Rally (Rassemblement Démocratique Africain) is a political party in Burkina Faso. It was originally known as the Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally (UDV-RDA) and was formed in 1957 as the Voltaic section of the African Democratic Rally (RDA). Soon after Inde..
African Development Bank
The African Development Bank (ADB) is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa. It is a conglomeration of the African Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Fund (ADF), and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF). Forty years to..
African Development Foundation
The African Development Foundation (ADF) is an independent United States Government agency and corporation that provides African-owned small enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa with investment capital to expand their production; develop new, high-value products; achieve profitability and sustainabilit..
African Development Fund
The African Development Fund was established in 1972 following an agreement between the African Development Bank and certain non-regional member countries to provide loans on concessional terms to less developed regional member countries. Resources of the African Development Fund are made available ..
African Development Movement
The African Development Movement (French: Mouvement Africain de Développement) is a political party in Gabon. At the last legislative elections, 9 December 2001, the party won 1 out of 120 seats. ..
African diaspora
The African diaspora or Afro diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and culture of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. The majority ..
African dwarf frog
African dwarf frogs of genus Hymenochirus, also known as dwarf aquatic frogs (ADF or DAF for short), are frogs native to Sub Saharan Africa. They are members of Family Pipidae. They are entirely aquatic though they do break the water surface as they are air breathers. They are nearly blind at c..
African Easterly Jet
The African easterly jet is a region of the lower troposphere over West Africa where the seasonal mean wind speed is maximum and easterly. The jet develops because heating of the West African land mass during the Northern Hemisphere summer creates a surface temperature and moisture gradient from th..
African Economic Community
The member states of the African Union are mounting efforts to collaborate economically, but they are impeded by the civil wars raging in several parts of Africa. The African Union provides greater powers to govern African economies. The stated goals include the creation of free trade areas, cust..
African Express Airways
African Express Airways is an airline based in Nairobi, Kenya. It operates domestic and international passenger services. Its main base is Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. Contents 1 Code Data2 History3 Services4 Fleet Code Data IATA Code: XUICAO Code: AXKCallsi..
African fat-tailed gecko
Hemitheconyx caudicinctus, commonly known as the African Fat-tailed Gecko, is a nocturnal, ground-dwelling gecko. The Fat-tailed gecko is from the subfamily Eublepharinae. Members of this subfamily include the banded geckos of North America and the leopard gecko of Pakistan. This subfamily has..
African Fiesta
African Fiesta was a Congolese soukous group started by Tabu Ley Rochereau and Dr. Nico Kasanda in 1963. Tabu Ley and Dr. Nico elevated African Fiesta to the forefront of Congolese dance music during the 1960s. African Fiesta represented the vision of Tabu Ley, who had spent the previous four years ..
African Finfoot
The African Finfoot, (Podica senegalensis), is an aquatic bird from the rivers and lakes of western, central and southern Africa. Like the rest of the family, the Masked Finfoot and the Sungrebe, the relationship to other birds is poorly understood. Contents 1 Description2 Habits and..
African Fish Eagle
The African Fish Eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer, is a large species of eagle and a bird of prey. African fish eagles are large birds, and the females are often larger than the males. Males usually have a wingspan of about 6 feet, while females have wingspans upwards of 8 feet. They are very distinc..
African Foam-nest Tree Frog
The African Foam-nest Tree Frog (Chiromantis rufescens) is a frog that lives in the tropical rainforests of Central Africa. Its upper body is a brownish color, tinged rust, and it has small dark spots around its head and pelvis. The frog lives in trees, and builds its nest on branches overhanging w..
African Footballer of the Year
The African Footballer of the Year, presented to the best African football (soccer) player, has been given out by the Confederation of African Football since 1992. A different African Footballer of the Year award was given out between 1970 and 1994 by France Football magazine. Winners 1992 - Abédi..
African Forest Elephant
Until recently, it was thought that the so-called African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) was simply a subspecies of the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana). DNA testing has now shown that there are in fact three extant elephant species: the two African types (formerly considered to be..
African French
French in Africa is present and spoken by many people. A great number of states in the continent of Africa speak the French language with local specificities. French arrived in Africa with colonization from France and Belgium. Africans are now an important part of la Francophonie. African countries..
African giant squirrel
African Giant Squirrels (genus Protoxerus) form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Sciurinae. They are only found in Africa. There are two species of African giant squirrels: Slender-tailed Squirrel, Protoxerus aubinniiForest Giant Squirrel or Stanger's Squirrel, Protoxerus stangeri ..
African Golden Cat
The African Golden Cat (Profelis aurata) is a medium-sized wild cat distributed over the rainforests of West and Central Africa. It is about 80 cm long, plus 30 cm tail. Contents 1 Physical attributes2 Behavior3 Subspecies4 References Physical attributes The colour of the f..
African Golden Oriole
The African Golden Oriole (Oriolus auratus) is a member of the oriole family of passerine birds which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara. It is a bird of thick bush and other well-wooded areas. The hanging basket-shaped nest is built in a tree, and contains two eggs. The food is ..
African Great Lakes
The Great Lakes and the East African coastline as seen from space. The Indian Ocean can be seen to the right. The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley. They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface..
African Grey Hornbill
Distribution of African Grey Hornbill The African Grey Hornbill, Tockus nasutus, is a hornbill. Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. The African Grey Hornbill is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of sub-Saharan Africa and into Arabia...
African Grey Parrot
The African Grey Parrot is a medium-sized parrot of the genus Psittacus, native to Africa. As the name implies, they are predominantly grey, with accents of white. Some of their feathers are very dark grey and others are a lighter grey colour. They have red or maroon tails depending on the subspe..
African ground squirrel
African ground squirrels (genus Xerus) form a taxon of squirrels under the subfamily Xerinae. They are only found in Africa. There are four species of African ground squirrels: Striped Ground Squirrel, Xerus erythropusCape Ground Squirrel, Xerus inauris (also: South African Ground Squirrel)Damara..
African Grove
The African Grove was a theater founded and operated by African Americans in New York City in 1821, a full six years before enslavement of blacks was outlawed in New York state. Among its stars was Ira Aldridge. For several years, the African Company—the company of the African Grove—pl..
African Growth and Opportunity Act
In May 2000, the U.S. Congress approved legislation known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA (Title I, Trade and Development Act of 2000; P.L. 106-200). The purpose of this legislation was to assist the economies of sub-Saharan Africa and to improve economic relations between the Un..
African Guitar Summit
African Guitar Summit is a group of Canadian guitar players, all of African origin. Assembled together for three days in Toronto, under the auspices of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation they produced a self-titled album which was released in November 2004. The group also toured a live show, inc..
African Handball Nations Championship
The African Handball Nations Championship is the official competition for senior men's national handball teams of Africa, and takes place every two years. In addition to crowning the African champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship. Medal summary..
African Hawk Eagle
The African Hawk Eagle (Aquila spilogaster) is a large bird of prey. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. African Hawk Eagle breeds in tropical Africa south of the Sahara. It is a bird of wooded hills, which builds a stick nest about 3 feet in diameter in the fork of a large tr..
African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem
This article is unrelated to Beta Israel, Jews from Ethiopia. ..
African helmeted turtle
The African helmeted turtle, also known as the Marsh Terrapin, is a small turtle (6 to 7 inches as an adult) withan olive-green or brown carapace (shell). The tops of the tail and limbs are a grayish brown, while the underside is yellowish. The male turtle is distinguished by its long, thick ..
African hemiola style
African hemiola style is a music rhythm common in Africa. A hemiola involves two bars in triple time (3/2 or 3/4 for example) played as if they were three bars in duple time (2/2 or 2/4). The interplay of two groups of three notes with two groups of two notes gives a distinctive pattern of 1-2-3,..
African Herbsman
African Herbsman is a compilation of Bob Marley & The Wailers songs, released by Trojan Records in 1973, shortly after their major-label debut album Catch a Fire had been released by Island Records. This album is a collection of some of the songs that The Wailers recorded in Jamaica together with..
African hip hop
Hip hop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence. The first hip hop group from Africa was Black Noise, a group from Cape Town, South Africa. They began as a graffiti and breakdance crew until they started emceeing around 1989. The government of Sout..
African holocaust
AFRICAN HOLOCAUST (MAAFA) See Maafa for more information The word Holocaust is not exclusive to anyone group of people, as it implies only one group of people have ever suffered. Thus it is now political correct to refer to the African Holocaust, the Jewish Holocaust, the Native American Holocaus..
African Horse sickness
African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious, and deadly disease. It commonly affects horses, mules, donkeys and zebras. It is caused by Viscerotropic virus of the genus Orbivirus belonging to the family Reoviridae. This disease can be caused by any of the nine serotypes of this virus. This d..
African House Snake
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The African House Snake, also known as the "Brown ho..
African immigration to Puerto Rico
Unlike other immigrations, the majority of the African immigration to Puerto Rico was a result of the slave trade. They came from various points of Africa to build fortifications and work the fields. They suffered many hardships but, many were eventually allowed to earn or buy their freedom as a ..
African Independence Party
African Independence Party (in French: Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) a communist party in French West Africa (AOF). PAI was founded in Thiès, Senegal in 1957. Later as AOF was dissolved into independent countries the local PAI sections became independent parties, often keeping the name PAI. I..
African Independence Party-Renewal
PAI flag African Independence Party (in French: Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) is a political party in Senegal led by Majhmoud Diop. At the 1972 congress of the original African Independence Party in Senegal, the former general secretary, Majhmoud Diop, was expelled. In 1976, in the cont..
African Independence Party (Burkina Faso)
African Independence Party (French: Parti Africain de l’Indépendance) is a political party in Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), led by Philippe Ouédraogo. It was a part of the Pan-african communist African Independence Party (PAI), which established its branch in Upper Volta in 1963. In 197..
African Independence Party (Touré)
The African Independence Party (French: Parti Africain de l’Indépendance) is a political party in Burkina Faso, led by Soumane Touré. It was formed in 1999 when Touré broke away from the original PAI. Touré's PAI joined the government and obtained the legal recognition to the name PAI. At t..
African Initiated Church
An African Initiated Church is an independent church or religious movement which demonstrates syncretism or partial integration between aspects of Christian belief and African culture. Often these churches have resulted from a process of acculturation between traditional African beliefs and Protest..
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is an educational institute in Muizenberg, South Africa, established in 2003. Students from all over Africa come to Muizenberg to complete a postgraduate diploma. Many of them continue to a Master's degree in science at a South African Universit..
African Institute of Mathematical Sciences
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIM..
African International Airways
African International Airways is an all-cargo airline based in Crawley, Sussex, United Kingdom. It specialises in providing supplementary contract aircraft capacity to scheduled carriers. Its main bases are Kent International Airport, United Kingdom, Johannesburg International Airport, South Africa,..
African Investment Bank
The African Investment Bank is one of three financial institutions of the African Union along with the African Monetary Fund and the African Central Bank. It will be headquartered in Libya. ..
African iron overload
African iron overload, formerly known as Bantu siderosis, is an iron overload disorder first observed among people of African descent in Southern Africa. Originally, this was blamed on ungalvanised barrels used to store home-made beer, which led to increased oxidation and increased iron levels in th..
African Jacana
The African Jacana (Actophilornis africana) is a jacana. The jacanas are a group of waders in the family Charadriidae, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat. They are found worldw..
African Jazz
This is an article about a music band. For information on jazz from Africa, see African jazz (music). Grand Kalle & l'African Jazz was perhaps the first full-time, professional band in what was then called Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo). It was founded by Joseph Kabasele Tsha..
African Jew
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African Journal of AIDS Research
The African Journal of AIDS Research (ISSN 1608-5906) is a scientific journal published by NISC for refereed papers and research notes on topics related to AIDS in Africa. See also List of scientific journals External links [AJAR at African Journals On-Line] ..
African kestrel
There are four kestrel species endemic to mainland Africa, and two also found elsewhere. The Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, is found over much of mainland Africa away from desert and forest regions. Common Kestrels sometimes migrate but not over particularly long distances (eg central Europe ..
African Lakes
The African Lakes Corporation plc (ALC) is a British company which operates businesses in Africa. It is often referred to as just "African Lakes". The company was originally established as the Livingstonia Central Africa Company in 1877-78, headquartered in Glasgow and managed by John Moir and Fre..
African languages
Map showing the distribution of African language families and some major African languages. Afro-Asiatic extends from the Sahel to Southwest Asia. Niger-Congo is divided to show the size of the Bantu sub-family. In many African countries there are several official languages There are an ..
African Leopard
The African leopard is the most common leopard with the least conservation concern. Contents 1 Physical Description2 General Information3 Diet and Hunting4 Habitat Physical Description The African leopard has an elongated body with relatively short, stocky legs. They have ..
African Leopards
The African Leopards are a African rugby union representitive team, organised by the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR). The side will play an important role in promoting rugby in Africa. The Leopards are the first ever Pan-African representative rugby union team. Contents 1 History2 ..
African Liberation Day
African Liberation Day on May 25 is an annual holiday in various countries in Africa, coinciding with African Union's Africa Day. History On April 15 1958, in the city of Accra, Ghana, African leaders and political activists gathered at the first Conference of Independent African States. It was att..
African Lion Safari
African Lion Safari is a safari park on the northern outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, near Cambridge, about 80 km west of Toronto. The park features more than 1,000 animals representing at least 130 species, including Asian elephants, peregrine falcons, cheetahs, striped hyenas, African lion..
African literature
African literature generally refers to the novels, short stories, and poetry written by African writers during the 20th century. Most of this output belongs to the broader class of postcolonial literature. The term "African literature" may also include the oral literary traditions of precolonial Afr..
African Mahogany
African Mahogany is the common name for at least two types of trees: genus Khaya of the family Meliaceaegenus Afzelia of the family Fabaceae (legumes) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you ma..
African Manatee
The African Manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) is a species of manatee, and is the least studied of the four species of sirenians. Photos of African Manatees are very rare; although very little is known about this species, scientists think they are similar to the West Indian Manatees. They are found..
African Mathematical Union
The African Mathematical Union (AMU) or Union Mathematique Africaine (UMA) is an African organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Africa. It was founded in 1976 in Rabat, Morocco during the first Pan-African conference of Mathematicians. The AMU publishes the journal Africa Mate..
African Medical and Research Foundation
African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) is a non-governmental organisation working in Africa to relieve poverty through health development. It is based in Nairobi, Kenya. External links [AMREF website] ..
African Meeting House
The African Meeting House was built in 1806 and is now the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States. It is located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Before 1805, although black Bostonians could attend white churches, they generally faced discrimination...
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Part of a of articles onChristianity     History of Christianity Timeline of Christianity The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father God the Son (Jesus Christ) God the Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament · LXX ..
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or AME Zion Church, was officially formed in 1821, but operated for a number years before then. The church can be traced back to the John Street Methodist Church of New York City. Following acts of overt discrimination (such as black parishoners being f..
African Military Cup
The African Military Cup is a football competition for national military teams in Africa. It is organized by OSMA (Organisation du Sport Militaire en Afrique), a branch of the International Military Sports Council. In French-speaking countries it is also known as CAMFOOT (Coupe d'Afrique de Football..
African Monetary Fund
The Africa Monetary Fund will be an African Union financial institution, though in time it's responsibilities will be transferred to the African Central Bank. ..
African mottled eel
The African mottled eel is a species of eel in the genus Anguilla of the family Anguillidae. Showing the typical characteristics of the Anguillidae, this species grows to 1.75 m and as much as 20 kg. The adult diet consists of crabs, frogs and insects as well as fish."[Anguilla beng..
African Mourning Dove
The African Mourning Dove (Streptopelia decipiens) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in Africa south of the Sahara. Despite its name, it is not a close relative of the American Mourning Dove, Zenaida macroura. This species is common or abundant near water. It builds a stick..
African Movement for Development and Progress
The African Movement for Development and Progress (French: Mouvement africain pour la dévelloppement et le progrès) is a political party in Benin. At the last legislative elections, 30 March 2003, the party was member of the Presidential Movement, the alliance of supporters of Mathieu Kérékou,..
African Movement of Working Children and Youth
African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) is a labour organization that tries to support the rights of African child workers. AMWCY was founded 1994 in Dakar, Senegal and in a meeting in Côte d'Ivoire. When western governments try to alleviate child labor by banning it, AMWCY tries to..
African Muslim Agency
The African Muslim Agency is a primarily Kuwait-sponsored aid organization based in Luanda, Angola. The agency, however, has established itself in much of Africa, including Sierra Leone, Mali, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Angola, the Gambia and particularly South Africa. According to one group,..
African nationalism
African nationalism is the nationalist political movement for one united Africa, or the lesser goal of the recognition of African tribes by establishing their own state and preservation of their native cultures. Organizations like the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society in the Gold Coast (founded ..
African Nationalist Movement
African Nationalist Movement (in French: Mouvement Nationalist Africain) was a political party in French West Africa, led by Pierre Diagne. It was formed after the fall of the Vichy regime. Source: Zuccarelli, François. La vie politique sénégalaise (1940-1988). Paris: CHEAM, 1988. ..
African National Congress
African National Congress Leader Thabo Mbeki See also Henri CurielAfrica Hinterland (Arms smuggling operation) External links [African National Congress] official site[Response by the ANC General Secretary to COSATU's assessment, 2004]["Today it feels good ..
African National Congress Youth League
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. Its foundation in 1944 by Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo marked the rise of a new generation of leadership of South Africa's black African population. It developed a manifesto in 19..
African Night Flight
"African Night Flight" is a song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno in 1979 for the album Lodger. It is a surreal and exuberant tribute to the music and culture of the veldt. Musicians on this song: David Bowie: Piano, VocalsDennis Davis: PercussionGeorge Murray: BassCarlos Alomar: GuitarSean May..
African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty
The African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba, establishes a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa. Signature of the Treaty culminates a 32-year quest for a nuclear free Africa, beginning when the Organization of African Unity formally stated its desire for a Treaty..
African Observer
The African Observer, subtitled "Illustrative of the General Character, and Moral and Political Effects of Negro Slavery", was an abolitionist publication, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a monthly journal between 1827 and 1828. The African Observer published essays, source materials, an..
African Orthodox Church
The African Orthodox Church owes its Episcopate and Apostolic Authority to the Syrian Church of Antioch where there disciples were first called Christians, and of which the Chair (See) of St. Peter the Apostle was the first Bishop. In a Bull issued by Ignatius Peter III, Patriarch of Antioch and th..
African Palm Civet
The African Palm Civet (Nandinia binotata), also known as the Two-spotted Palm Civet, is a small mammal, with short legs, small ears, a body resembling a cat, and a long lithe tail as long as its body. Adults usually weigh 1.70 to 2.10 kg. They are native to the forests of eastern Africa, whe..
African Palm Swift
The African Palm Swift (Cypsiurus parvus) is a small swift. It is very similar to the Asian Palm Swift, Cypsiurus balasiensis, and was formerly considered to be the same species. It is a common resident breeder in tropical Africa. The down and feather nest is glued to the underside of a palm leaf ..
African Paradise Flycatcher
The African Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It was previously classified in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the famil..
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a social-democratic political party in Cape Verde. It came to power as a sole ruling party after independence and ruled the country under the name African Party for the Independe..
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
PAIGC emblem A PAIGC soldier with an AK-47 The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde), or PAIGC is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. In the 2004 legislative elections it was the largest singl..
African Party for the Independence of the Masses
African Party for Independence of the Masses (in French: Parti Africain pour l'Indépendance des Masses) is a black nationalist political party in Senegal. It was legally registered in July 1982. PAIM publishes Nation Africaine. PAIM favours a form of direct participative democracy. In spite of i..
African Peer Review Mechanism
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a mutually agreed instrument voluntarily acceded to by the member states of the African Union (AU) as a self-monitoring mechanism. The mandate of the APRM is to encourage conformity in regard to political, economic and corporate governance values, codes a..
African Penguin
The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the Jackass Penguin (after its donkey-like braying call), and the Blackfooted Penguin, is found on the south-western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with the..
African People's Socialist Party
The African People's Socialist Party is a political party in the United States founded on an ideology combining Black Nationalism and Socialism. It is the leading organization of the Uhuru Movement. External link [APSP Website] ..
African Peoples Union
African Peoples Union (in French: Union des Populations Africaines) is a political party in Cameroon led by the Panafrican scholar Hubert Kamgang. The party was founded in 1996. UPA is Panafrican and supports the creation of a 'United States of Africa'. ..
African Period
African influenced period of Pablo Picasso, which followed his Blue Period and Rose Period. This period has also occasionally been called the Negro Period or Black Period. Between 1907 and 1909 Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture. After painting Les..
African Petroleum Producers Association
African Petroleum Producers Association, APPA (Association des pays africains producteurs de pétrole in French, Associação de Produtores de Petróleo Africanos in Portuguese and رابطة منتجي النفط الأفريقية in Arabic) is an organisation of african countries producing petrol..
African philosophy
African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. Although African philosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, a great deal of the literature is taken up with ..
African Photography Encounters
African Photography Encounters (French: Rencontres africaines de la photographie) is a biannual exhibition in Bamako, Mali since 1994. The exhibition, featuring exhibits by contemporary African photographers, is sperad over several Bamako cultural centers, including the National Museum, the Nationa..
African Pied Hornbill
Distribution of African Pied Hornbill African Pied Hornbill, Tockus fasciatus, is a hornbill. Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. African Pied Hornbill is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of equatorial Africa from The Gambia to west..
African plate
border=#000 solid 1px}} The African Plate is a tectonic plate covering the continent of Africa and extending westward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the North American Plate to the north and the South American Plate to the south forming the central a..
African pope
An African pope is a pope of African birth or heritage. Bishops of Rome Three Africans are known to have occupied the See of Rome. According to the records of the Liber Pontificalis, all three were from the Roman Province of Africa (corresponding to the territory of modern Tunisia and Libya). The..
African Popular Movement
African Popular Movement (in French: Mouvement Populaire Africain) was a political party in Upper Volta, led by Nazi Boni. MPA was founded in 1955 following a split in the Voltaic Union. In the 1957 territorial assembly elections MPA won five seats. After the elections MPA joined the Voltaic Solid..
African Portuguese
African Portuguese (Africano Português in Portuguese) is the group of Portuguese language dialects spoken in Africa. All of these dialects are now similar to European Portuguese, which is learned by all Portuguese speakers in these countries. Angolan PortugueseCapeverdean PortugueseGuinean Portugu..
African Progress Union
The African Progress Union was founded in London in 1918 as "an Association of Africans from various parts of Africa, the West Indies, British Guiana, Honduras and America, representing advanced African ideas in liberal education". The first president was John Archer. References Killingray, David..
African Pygmy-Kingfisher
The African Pygmy-Kingfisher (Ispidina picta) is a small insectivorous kingfisher found in the Afrotropics, mostly in woodland habitats. Some texts refer to this species as Ceyx pictus. Contents 0.1 Size0.2 Identification0.3 Habits0.4 Habitat0.5 Status and distribution0..
African Pygmy Elephant
The (African) Pygmy Elephant (Loxodonta pumilio) is said to be a secretive species, related to the African Forest Elephant and native to the Congo. In cryptozoology it is sometimes argued to be a separate species. A 2000 paper by the mammalogists Colin Groves and Peter Grubb argued that this species..
African Pygmy Falcon
The African Pygmy Falcon Polihierax semitorquatus is a small falcon that lives in eastern and southern Africa. It is only 19-20 cm long. This small falcon preys on insects, small reptiles and even small mammals. Subspecies semitorquatus and castanotus References BirdLife International (2004). &#..
African Pygmy Goose
The African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus) is a small perching duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. References BirdLife International (2004). [Nettapus auritus&#..
African Pygmy Mouse
The African Pygmy Mouse, (Mus minutoides) is possibly the smallest of all rodents and one of the smallest mammals. It is widespread within sub-Saharan Africa, and is kept as a pet in other parts of the world. Like the common House Mouse, it is a member of the enormous superfamily Muroidea, which i..
African rainforest
The African Rainforest is a large expanse of rainforest at the centre of the African continent. The dense forest begins south of the plains region of the Sahel and a region of more sparse forest. It covers the southernmost part of West Africa, including most of the Guinea coast. It extends south ..
African reference alphabet
An African reference alphabet was proposed by a conference in Niamey, Niger in 1978 organized by UNESCO. The alphabet was revised in 1982. The conference recommended to use single letters for a sound (actually a phoneme) instead of using two or three-letter combinations or letters with diacritical m..
African reggae
Reggae is a kind of Jamaican popular music that has spread to much of the world, especially including Africa. There are many African reggae musicians with a wide fanbase both on the continent and abroad. Three well-known African reggae artists are Alpha Blondy, Majek Fashek and Lucky Dube. Bob Mar..
African Regional Intellectual Property Organization
Map of current ARIPO members in blue, nations with observer status in green. The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and othe..
African Regroupment Party
The African Regroupment Party (in French: Parti du Regroupement Africain) was a political party in the French African colonies. PRA to into being at a meeting in Paris March 26 1958. The main founding organizations were the African Convention and the African Socialist Movement. Other parties that a..
African Regroupment Party-Renewal
African Regroupment Party-Renewal (in French: Parti du Regroupement Africain-Rénovation) was a political party in Senegal, formed in 1964 following a split in the African Regroupment Party-Senegal (PRA-Sénégal). PRA-Rénovation opted for a quick merger with the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS)..
African Regroupment Party-Senegal
African Regroupment Party-Senegal (in French: Parti du Regroupement Africain-Sénégal) was a political party in Senegal. Formed in September 1958, following a split in the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS). PRA adhered to the African Regroupment Party (PRA). In 1964 PRA-Sénégal split, and a mi..
African Regroupment Party (Upper Volta)
African Regroupment Party (in French: Parti du Regroupement Africain) was a political party in Upper Volta. The interterritorial PRA had established a strong section in Upper Volta in 1958. This party disappeared as the country became a single-party state under the Voltaic Democratic Union (UDV-RDA)..
African Renaissance
The African Renaissance is a concept popularized by South African President Thabo Mbeki in which the African people and nations are called upon to solve the many problems troubling the African continent. It reached its height in the late 1990s but continues to be a key part of the post-apartheid in..
African Renaissance Stadium
African Renaissance Stadium is a planned multi-use stadium in Cape Town, South Africa that is currently in the planning phase. The design of the stadium is expected to be complete by the end of June 2006. Once completed in 2010, it will be used mostly for football matches. It will be the one of th..
African Rite
In the History of Christianity, African Rite refers to a now defunct Roman Catholic Western liturgical rite. This liturgy was in use not only in the old Roman province of Africa of which Carthage was the capital, but also in Numidia and Mauretania; in fact, in all of Northern Africa from the borders..
African Safari Airways
African Safari Airways is an airline based in Basel in Switzerland. It operates up-market charter and inclusive tour flights between Europe and Kenya, serving the East African game parks and other tourist attractions in the area. Contents 1 Code Data2 History3 Services4 Fleet5..
African Silverbill
The African Silverbill (Lonchura cantans) is a small passerine bird formerly considered conspecific with the Asian species Indian Silverbill, Lonchura malabarica. This estrildid finch is a common resident breeding bird in drier areas of Africa just south of the Sahara Desert. The African Sil..
African Skies
African Skies was a Canadian television series which aired from 1991-1994. It starred Catherine Bach. Plot summary An adventure series about two teenagers, one black and one white, living in post-Apartheid South Africa. Rory lives with his mother on a large range out in the countryside, while Jam ..
African slave trade
This article discusses the history and effects of the slavery trade upon Africa. See also Atlantic slave trade for the trans-Atlantic trade, and Arab slave trade for the trans-Saharan trade. Slave transport in Africa, from a 19th century engraving The trading of slaves has been carried on for..
African socialism
Part of the Politics series on Socialism Currents Democratic socialism Christian socialism Communism Libertarian socialism Social democracy Revolutionary socialism Influences Owenism Marxism Anarchism Trade unionism Ideas Egalitarianism Democracy Mixed economy Planned economy Ke..
African Socialist International
The African Socialist International (ASI) is the result of political conclusions reached by the African People’s Socialist Party that African people worldwide -- from South Africa to the Congo, the UK to the U.S. and throughout the Caribbean and South America -- must be united into a singular revo..
African Socialist Movement
African Socialist Movement (in French: Mouvement Socialiste Africain) was a political party in French West Africa. MSA was formed following a meeting of the SFIO federations of Senegal, Guinea, French Sudan, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Gabon and Oubangui-Chari held in Conakry January 11 - January ..
African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence
The African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (Solidarité Africaine pour la Démocratie et l'Indépendance) is a political party in Mali. At the last legislative elections, 14 July 2002, the party won 6 out of 160 seats. ..
African Space Craft
Track listing Million Miles From HomeColorful WorldProdigal FunkSplashDear Mr. CooperAfrican Space CraftSpeechCubic Space DivisionFunk 'n' CircumstancesMan With the ScarNever Gonna Let You GoIf You Know ..
African Spir
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African Spoonbill
The African Spoonbill (Platalea alba) is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. This species is a widespread resident across Africa and Madagascar. The African Spoonbill occurs in marshy wetlands with some open shallow water, nesting in colonies in trees or reedbeds...
African Spurred Tortoise
The African Spurred Tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) is a species of tortoise which inhabits the southern edge of the Sahara desert, in northern Africa. Their diet provides them with water, and they coat their skin with mud when available to cool off. When mud wallows are not available, they retreat ..
African Standby Force
The African Standy Force is intended to be an international, continental African military force, with both a civilian and police component, under the direction of the African Union. It is to be deployed in times of crisis in Africa. It is hoped that by 2010 the force will be operational The genisis..
African Steamship Company
The African Steamship Company was a British shipping line in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The company was founded in the middle of the 19th century by Macgregor Laird, the younger son of the shipbuilder William Laird, and based in Birkenhead. The main focus of the company at first was tradin..
African Stock Exchanges Association
The African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA) was incorporated in 1993 in the Republic of Kenya. ASEA's aim is to provide a formal framework for the mutual co-operation of stock exchanges in the African region. Its functions include the exchange of information and assistance in the development of m..
African Stonechat
The African Stonechat (Saxicola torquata) is a member of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. In the past it was usually treated in a far wider sense, as the Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata sensu lato), but recent genetic evidence strongly supports the status as full species for the E..
African striped weasel
The African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of genus Poecilogale, is a small black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa. It looks very much like a striped polecat, but much thinner and with shorter hair. It is sleek black with a white tail and four white stripes r..
African studies
African studies is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an africanist. A related discipline is Pan-African Studies. See also Pan-A..
African superswell
The African superswell is an extraordinary uplift of the African continent, particularly its southern half; southern Africa on average lies a full kilometer above sea level, with seemingly anomalous uplifts extending well into the south Atlantic ocean.[(Nyblade and Robinson,1994)],[li..
African Super Cup
The African Super Cup is an annual association football competition run by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. ..
African swine fever virus
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the causative agent of African swine fever. ASFV infects domestic pigs, warthogs and bushpigs, as well as soft ticks. The virus causes a lethal haemorraghic disease in domestic pigs, some isolates can cause death of animals within as little as a week after infecti..
African Teachers In England Union
The African Teachers In England Union was a trade union set up by pioneering Malian teacher Kenneth Bekoe in March 1973. Bekoe, himself an immigrant from Mali, set up the Union in association with a young and enterprising Nigerian woman called Madelaine Yvonne Lasoye. Lasoye and Bekoe used their fam..
African Theatre
The African Theatre was an African-American acting troupe in New York City established by William Henry Brown in the 1820s. The troupe performed plays by Shakespeare and plays written by Brown, several of which were anti-colonization and anti-slavery. The troupe was largely ignored and even vilified..
African theatre of World War I
The African Theatre of World War I was a set of unrelated wars for control over German colonies in Africa: the German colonies of Kamerun, Togo, South-West Africa, and German East Africa. Contents 1 Overview2 West Africa3 South-West Africa4 German East Africa5 After th..
African Thrush
The African Thrush (Turdus pelios) is a passerine bird in the thrush family Turdidae. It is common in well-wooded areas over much of sub-Saharan Africa. Populations are resident. African Thrushes are omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms and berries. They nest in bushes or simila..
African Trade Union Congress
African Trade Union Congress, initially known as Southern Rhodesian African Trade Union Congress was a trade union federation. SRATUC/ATUC was politically linked to the Zimbabwe African People's Union. The movement was led by Josiah Maluleke. SRATUC/ATUC took active part in the national liberation s..
African Traditional Religion
African Traditional Religion is an umbrella encompassing a wide, but remarkably homogenous, variety of traditional beliefs and practices shared by most sub-Saharan African societies. Many of these are technically known as animism. Although African traditionalists almost always acknowledge the exi..
African Unification Front
"AUF" can also refer to Agent Under Fire The African Unification Front is an organisation aiming to promote a political, social and economic union in Africa. Abbreviated AUF. Contents 1 History2 Symbols3 See also4 External link History AUF was formed in August 1996. The AUF ..
African Union
African Union (In Detail) (In Detail) Anthem: Let us all unite and celebrate together Capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Membership 53 member states Official languages Arabic, Swahili, English, French and Portuguese 1 Formation - As OAU - As AU - May 25 1963 - July 9 2002..
African Union Chairman of the Commission
The Commission of the African Union serves as the AU's administrative branch. It consists of ten Commissioners, who hold individual portfolios. The Commission implements AU policies and coordinates the body's activities and meetings. The Commission elects its Chairperson to a four-year term. List ..
African Union Mission in Sudan
The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) originated in early July 2004, when both the African Union and European Union sent monitors to monitor the Darfur crisis cease-fire signed in April 2004. In August 2004, the African Union sent 150 Rwandan troops in to protect the ceasefire monitors. Howeve..
African Union of Railways
The African Union of Railways in an organisation under the auspices of the new African Union dealing with railways. It is similar to the UIC. Contents 1 Overview2 Gauge2.1 Nigeria3 Conferences Overview African railways sadly are disjointed, disconnected, and generally in a ..
African United Baptist Church
The African United Baptist Church is a denominational body of Baptists in the Republic of Malawi. It is one two schisms from the Providence Industrial Mission (forerunner of the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc.) of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.. The formation of the African Un..
African Uplands
African Uplands was a term commonly used by European scholars, especially in the 19th century. It refers to the region now commonly known as Sub-Saharan Africa. The term African Upland became an important element of philosophical and historical study at that time, especially because works by Hegel a..
African Violet Society of America
The African Violet Society of America is a society of plant enthusiasts who promote the growth of African violets as house plants. They host an annual convention and publish a bi-monthly full-color 64-page magazine, the African Violet Magazine. ..
African Well Fund
African Well Fund is a Non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for the construction and maintenance of freshwater wells throughout impoverished sections of Africa. It was founded in October of 2002 by a group of U2 fans who were inspired by frontman Bono's May 2002 visit to poor sections ..
African Wild Ass
The African Wild Ass (Equus africanus) is a wild member of the horse family, Equidae. This species is believed to be the ancestor of the domestic donkey Equus asinus, which is usually placed within the same species. The species name for the African Wild Ass is sometimes designated as africanus. ..
African Wild Dog
The African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus), also called African Hunting Dog or Painted Hunting Dog[link], is a mammal of the Canidae family, and thus related to the domestic dog. It is the only species in its genus, Lycaon, and the only species in the canid family to lack dewclaws on the forel..
African Window
The African Window is the national cultural history museum (NCHM) of South Africa. It is situated in Pretoria, Gauteng. The NCHM was amalgamated with the Pretoria-based Transvaal Museum for Natural History and the South African National Museum for Military History (situated in Johannesburg) on 1 Apr..
African Writers Conference
In 1962 a conference of African literature in English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. It was attended by many prominent African writers, including Chinua Achebe (winner of the Commonwealth Prize), Wole Soyinka (later Nobel Laureate ..
African Writers Series
African Writers Series has been published by Heinemann since 1962. During its 40 years of publishing the series has been a vehicle for some of the most important African writers. It has ensured an international voice to many of the continent's literary masters including Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thion..
African Youth Amílcar Cabral
African Youth Amílcar Cabral (in Portuguese: Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral) is the youth wing of PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. JAAC was founded on September 12 1974 in Boé. After the separation of PAICV from PAIGC, the Cape Verdean section of JAAC became a separate organization, also called JAAC. ..
Africare
Africare is a non-profit organization specialized in development aid for Africa. Founded in 1970, the NGO currently operates in 25 countries. It is the oldest and largest African-American led NGO dealing exclusively with Africa in the United States Africare's programs address needs in the principa..
Africa '70
Africa '70 was the afrobeat entourage orchestrated by Fela Kuti throughout most of the 1970's. ..
Africa (Billings)
Africa is a hymn tune composed by William Billings. Contents 1 History2 Music3 Words4 Reception5 Books6 External links7 Footnote History Billings wrote Africa some time before 1770 and included it in his first published hymnbook, The New England Psalm Singer. ..
Africa (disambiguation)
Africa may refer to: Africa, the continentAfrica Province was a province of the Roman EmpireAfrica (epic poem), the poem by Francesco PetrarchAfrica (Billings), a hymn by William BillingsAfrica (song), a song by the band TotoFor the many British Royal Navy ships named Africa, see HMS Africa This is..
Africa (epic poem)
Africa is a historical epic poem written by Francesco Petrarch. The poem tells the story of the Second Punic War through the experiences of Roman general Scipio Africanus. Set in Latin hexameter, it was one of several of his epics drawn from stories of antiquity. Petrarch himself thought highly ..
Africa (song)
"Africa" is a song by 80's rock band Toto about a young man's mystical journey through Africa. The song was included on their 1982 album Toto IV, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1983. The lyric "I bless the rains, down in Africa," is one of the most misheard lyric..
Africa Alphabet
The Africa Alphabet was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (later the IAI) in London. Its aim was to enable people to write all the African languages for practical and s..
Africa Baby, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Africa Baby, Yeah Yeah Yeah was the first album by Applied Communications. Track listing "Boy for Sale" - 1:32"Dancing in an Inverse Rhyme" (Matheny, Wood) - 3:12"Kangaroo" (Matheny, Smyth, Wood) - 4:13"Ocean! Ocean! Ocean!" - 3:06"Salmon" - 3:47"Urban Renewal" (Matheny, Smyth, Wood) - 3:15"Casi..
Africa Brazil
Africa Brazil is a 1976 release by samba artist Jorge Ben. Track listing Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)Hermes Trimegisto EscreveuO FilósofoMeus Filhos, Meu TesouroO PiebeuTaj MahalXica De SilvaA História de JorgeCamisa 10 Da GáveaCavaleiro Do Cavalo ImaculadoÁfrica Brasil (Zumbi) ..
Africa Confidential
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Africa Day
Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was in in July 2002 succeeded by the present African Union, while amalgamating with the African Economic Community (AEC), but kept the date and name of Africa Day. Sources and ref..
Africa Fighting Malaria
Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in Washington DC and South Africa which states it "seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control." AFM was formed in 2000. Its staff members have current or former links with a range of rightwing or fre..
Africa Hinterland
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Africa Hinterland was an overland travel company set..
Africa Independent Television
Africa Independent Television is a Nigerian satellite television station. Some of its programming is also carried in the United Kingdom on the satellite channel BEN Television. It also has a channel on GlobeCast World TV. Censorship On May 14, 2006, in the midst of the controversy over the so-call..
Africa Inland Mission
Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a nondenominational Christian mission organisation focusing on Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean. AIM was founded in 1895 by Peter Cameron Scott together with Arthur Pierson and Charles Hurlburt, and as of 2004 has over 850 missionaries. Contents 1 Histor..
Africa Leadership Forum
The Africa Leadership Forum (ALF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in Nigeria in 1988 by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. The primary focus of ALF is to help improve the current quality of leadership in Africa while at the same time helping to train the next generation of leaders for..
Africa Liberal Network
The Liberalism series,part of the Politics series Development History of liberal thought Contributions to liberal theory Schools Classical liberalism Cultural liberalism Economic liberalism Libertarianism Neoliberalism Ordoliberalism Paleoliberalism Radicalism Social liberalism Reg..
Africa Mercy
Africa Mercy is part of a fleet of ships from Mercy Ships, a fleet of hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. The Africa Mercy has been commissioned in Newcastle, England in April 2006 and will make its way to Ghana for its first mission trip. It is currently the largest civilian floating h..
Africa Muslim Party
The Africa Muslim Party is a South African Muslim political party. It was founded in 1994, with Gulam Sabdia as Chairman and Imtiaz Suleman as national leader, and competed in the 1994 elections with few (around 78,000) votes to account for (it had put up 60 candidates for the National Assembly and..
Africa Nazarene University
Africa Nazarene University is a liberal arts university located in Ongata Rongai, Kenya. The school is affiliated with the Church of the Nazarene. It is the first Nazarene liberal arts university outside of the United States. ANU is located on almost 100 acres in the midst of the vast Masaai Plains..
Africa Online
Africa Online was started in 1994 by three Kenyan students at MIT. It developed from an online community hosted at MIT called KenyaNet. KenyaNet was one of several Africa-focused online communities (the others were Okyeame (Ghana), Naijanet (Nigeria), and Salonet (Sierra Leone) formed and run by MI..
Africa Oyé
Africa Oyé is an annual music festival in Liverpool, England. It is held in Sefton Park and showcases up-and-coming African and Caribbean artists, as well as presenting already famous artists, such as Bonga and Luciano. See also Kenny Murray External links http://www.africaoye.com/ ..
Africa Province
Roman North Africa The Roman Empire ca. 120 with the province of Africa highlighted Africa was a province of the Roman Empire. It roughly comprised the territory of present-day northern Tunisia, as well as the Mediterranean coast of modern-day western Libya along the Syrtis Minor. The ..
Africa Region
redirect[[Template:Portal]] The Africa Scout Region is the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with satellite offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Dakar, Senegal. The Africa Region services Scouting in Sub-..
Africa Screams
Africa Screams is a 1949 comedy film starring the team of Abbott & Costello (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) and featuring Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, Max Baer and Buddy Baer. The film is notable for having two members of the Three Stooges (Shemp Howard and Joe Besser) working..
Africa Service Medal
Africa Service Medal Date 1943 Branch of Service South African Forces Campaign Second World War Ribbon 32mm, central orange stripe, with green and gold stripes on either side Metal Silver Size 36mm Obverse Reverse Clasps None authorised. The Africa Service Medal was a Sou..
Africa Source
Africa Source was an event held to promote the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) among non-profit and non-governmental organisations. Africa Source 2 was organised in the first fortnight of January 2006 in Kalangala, an island on Lake Victoria, in Uganda. ..
Africa Sports
Africa Sports National (Africa Sports) is an Ivorian football club based in Abidjan. It was founded in 1948. They play at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny. ..
Africa Squadron
The Africa Squadron was a unit of the United States Navy that operated from 1843 to 1859 to suppress the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. The squadron was an outgrowth of the 1819 treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom that was an early step in stopping the trade, and fu..
Africa Star
Africa Star Date 1945 Branch of Service British and Commonwealth forces Campaign Africa 1940-43 Ribbon Pale buff, with a broad red central stripe, a dark blue stripe on the left and a light blue stripe on the left Metal Bronze Size Height - 44mm; max. Width - 38mm Obverse Reverse Pl..
Africa Trail
Africa Trail is an educational computer game based on the similar idea of The Oregon Trail. It was published by The Learning Company. In this game, players traveled across Africa via bicycle. ..
Africa Twin
Africa Twin is a motorcycle manufacturered by Honda. The motorcycle was based on the NXR-800 which won the Paris Dakar rally 3 times in the late eighties. The Africa Twin XRV is available in 650cc and 750cc configurations. It is no longer manufacturered. It's considered by many to be the most ro..
Africa U.S.A. Park
Africa USA was an African wildlife tourist attraction that was open from 1953 until 1961. The park was located in Boca Raton, Florida on 300 acres of land near U.S. 1. Africa USA was truly a theme park before its time, with animals allowed to roam free. Even though Animal Kingdom in Disney World ..
Africa Unite
Africa Unite is a song written by Bob Marley, appearing on his Survival album. ..
Africa West Airlines
Africa West Airlines is a cargo airline based in Lomé, Togo. It was established in 1997 and operates cargo flights from Lomé. Contents 1 Code Data2 Services3 Fleet4 External links Code Data IATA Code: FKICAO Code: WTACallsign: West Togo Services Africa West operates inter..
Africa wins again
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Africo
Geography Africo is a municipality in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the Southern Italian region of Calabria. It is bounded by the comuni of Bianco, Bova, Bruzzano Zeffirio, Cosoleto, Roghudi, Samo, Sant'Agata del Bianco, Staiti. History It has had some importance in the history of Italian ..
Africville, Nova Scotia
Africville was a small unincorporated community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, adjacent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and the community was eventually included as part of the ..
Afric Simone
Afric Simone is a musician originating from Mozambique. He debuted in 1975 with a hit Ramaya. ..
Afridi
Afridi (Urdu: آفریدی ) is a Pashtun tribe. Their original limits probably included the Safed Koh range, north of the Kabal River, and south of the Kurram River. Now, they occupy the eastern Safed Koh region and northern Pakistan. The term Afridi is possibly derived from the Aparyatea or Apa..
Afrihili
Afrihili is a constructed language designed in 1970 by K. A. Kumi Attobrah to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa. The name of the language is a combination of Africa and Swahili. The author, a native of Akrokerri in Ghana, originally conceived of the idea in 1967 while on a sea voyage fr..
Afrijet Airlines
Afrijet Airlines is an airline based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was established and started operations in 1999 and operates regional cargo services. Its main base is Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. Code Data ICAO Code: FRJCallsign: Afrijet Fleet The Afrijet Airlines fleet consists of th..
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a Low Franconian language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Due to the emigration of many White South Africans, there are an additional estimated 300,000 Afrikaans-speakers in the United Kin..
Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool
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Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool
The Affies school crest The Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool, also known as Affies, is a public high school for boys situated in the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, opposite the world famous rugby stadium and home of the Blue Bulls, Loftus Versfeld. It was founded on 28 November 1920 as t..
Afrikaans grammar
Afrikaans grammar is the study of the grammar of the Afrikaans language. Grammatically, Afrikaans is very analytic—indeed it may be said to be the most analytic of the Indo-European languages. Compared to most other Indo-European languages, verb paradigms in Afrikaans are relatively simple. Th..
Afrikaans language/Swadesh list
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Afrikaans Language Monument
Obelisks of the Language Monument in Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa. Plaque showing two quotes from Afrikaans poets The path leading up to the monument. The Afrikaans Language Monument (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Taalmonument) is located on a hill overlooking Paarl, Western Cape Pr..
Afrikaner
Afrikaners are an ethnically distinct group of descendants of European settlers, arriving in modern day South Africa on and after 16 April 1652. Their mother tongue is Afrikaans, their predominant religion is Afrikaner Calvinism and they identify with the Afrikaner culture. Contents 1 His..
Afrikaner-Jews
Afrikaner-Jews or Boer-Jode as they are sometimes known, are a peculiar off-shoot of Afrikanerdom and Judaism. At the beginning of the 19th century, when idea of freedom of religion was introduced in South Africa, small numbers of Jews arrived from Britain and Germany. They established the first Heb..
Afrikanerbond
This page refers to the Afrikanerbond or Afrikaner Broederbond''. For the political party formed in 1881 by Rev S.J. du Toit, see Afrikander Bond. There is a publishing company in Europe called Broederbond but it has absolutely nothing to do with the secret society described here). '' The Afrikaner..
Afrikanervolksfront
The Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF (Afrikaner People's Front) was a separatist umbrella organisation uniting a number of right-wing Afrikaner organisations in South Africa in the transitional period while multi-party negotiations were held in the run-up to the democratic elections on 27 April 1994. Th..
Afrikaner (disambiguation)
The word Afrikaner may refer to: The Afrikaner ethnic groupAfrikaner cattle, a South African breed of cattleSome species of Gladiolus This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change..
Afrikaner Bond
The Afrikaner Bond (Afrikaans: Afrikander Union) also referred to in Dutch as the Afrikander Bond was a political party in the Cape Colony. It was formed by the union of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners) under the leadership of Rev S.J. du Toit and the Zuidafrikaansche..
Afrikaner Calvinism
Afrikaner Calvinism is a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa. From between 1652 to 1835, settlers primarily from the Netherlands, and migrant and refugee Calvinist Protestants from Ge..
Afrikaner cattle
The Afrikaner cattle (Afrikander cattle) are a hardy breed of beef cattle which are popular in South Africa. In Afrikaans, this breed is called [Afrikanerbees] ..
Afrikaner Party
The Afrikaner Party (AP) was a South African political party from 1939 to 1951. The roots of the party can be traced back September 1939, when South Africa declared war on Germany at the start of World War II. General J.B.M. Hertzog and his followers did not agree with this move and broke away fr..
Afrikaner Student Federation
The Afrikaner Student Federation is a white supremacist group based in South Africa. They use the swastika as their emblem. See also Afrikanerneo-naziSouth Africa External link [White supremacist flags in South Africa] ..
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
The flag of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement), was an extremist right-wing political group in South Africa under the leadership of Eugène Terre'Blanche. They were committed to the restoration of an independent Afrikaner re..
Afrikan Nikolaevich Krishtofovich
Afrikan Nikolaevich Krishtofovich (Африкан Николаевич Криштофович) (1885 – 1953) was a Soviet paleobotanist. He gathered extensive collections of the Mesozoic flora. In 1932 he published his book Geological review of the countries of the Far East. A crater on Mars..
Afrikan tähti
Afrikan tähti ("the star of Africa") is a Finnish board game designed by Kari Mannerla originally in the 1950s. It has been one of the most popular board games in Finland for decades. Afrikan tähti is set in colonial Africa, with the object being to find and retrieve the famous diamond the Star o..
Afrika (Sergei Bugaev)
Sergei Bugaev (also known as Afrika) (born 1966) is a Russian artist. He was born in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, and in the early 1980s moved to St. Petersburg, where he met and became friends with leaders of the art scene there, such as the painter Timur Novikov and musician Boris Grebenshchik..
Afrika Bambaataa
Bambaataa, as pictured on the compilation Looking for the Perfect Beat 1980-1985 Afrika Bambaataa (born Kevin Donovan on April 17, 1957)Afrika Bambaataa's date of birth has been cited as April 10 or October 4, in both 1957 or 1960. His exact birthdate is hotly debated, and he himself refuses ..
Afrika Islam
Afrika Islam, born Charles Glenn, and known also as the Son of Bambaataa, is a hip-hop producer. He left New York for Los Angeles and went on to co-produce most of Ice T's early albums, namely Rhyme Pays and Power; the latter is deemed to be Ice's finest effort by some aficionados. In the late 1990s..
Afrika Korps
The seal of Afrikakorps The German Afrika Korps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps, DAK [listen] ([Media helphelp]·[info])) was the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in Libya and Egypt during the North African Campaign of World War II...
Afrika Korps (game)
Afrika Korps is a wargame published by the Avalon Hill game company in 1964 and then re-released in 1965 and 1977. Played on a mapboard depicting the northern coastline of Africa, the game follows the arduous tank battles of Erwin Rommel as he fought the British forces in World War II. The game f..
Afrika Shox
Afrika Shox is an electronica song written by Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa in 1999, it was featured in the movie Vanilla Sky. ..
Afrikids
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Afrik Air Links
Afrik Air Links is an airline based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was established in 1991 and is a private airline operating charter flights in West Africa. Code Data ICAO Code: AFK Fleet The Afrik Air Links fleet consists of 1 Boeing 727-200 Adv aircraft (at January 2005). Lists of Aircr..
Afrin
Afrin is a brand of nasal spray used to ease nasal congestion that is available over-the-counter in the United States. The generic name for this medication is Oxymetazoline hydrochloride. It comes in the 12 hour and 24 hour varieties. While useful in the short-term for relief of sinus congestion, ..
Afrinat International Airlines
Afrinat International Airlines is an airline based in Banjul in Gambia and providing scheduled services to other West African states (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Senegal). In 2003 there were proposals for a daily service between New York (JFK) and Banjul using a Boeing 747. Code Data IA..
AfriNIC
AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa. AfriNIC, headquartered in Ebene City, Mauritius, was provisionally recognised by ICANN on October 11 2004 and became functionally operational on February 22 2005. It was recognised by ICANN in April 2005. Previously, IP addresses for Afri..
Afriqiyah Airways
Afriqiyah Airways (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية الأفريقية) is an airline based in Tripoli, Libya. It operates services to European, African and Middle Eastern destinations. Its main base is Tripoli International Airport. Afriqiyah Airways is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organiz..
Afriqiyah Airways destinations
Afriqiyah Airways flies directly to various locations in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Contents 1 ..
Afrique Airlines
Afrique Airlines is an airline based in Cotonou, Benin. It was established in 2002 and operates a scheduled passenger service between Benin and France. Its main base is Cotonou Airport. Code Data IATA Code: X5ICAO Code: FBNCallsign: Afrique Benin Services Afrique Airlines operates services to the..
Afrique verte
Afrique verte ("Green Africa") is a French NGO engaged in the Sahel region of Africa, specifically Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Its objective is to ensure food security in the region, and on a larger scale, sustainable development. Its activities include training for better marketing of agricultura..
Afrirampo
Afrirampo live in Osaka in 2005 Afrirampo are a band from Osaka, Japan. They are Oni (guitar, vocals) and Pikachu (drums, vocals). Since forming in 2002 they have toured with Sonic Youth and Lightning Bolt, collaborated with Acid Mothers Temple and released several CDs on various labels. In ..
Afro
An afro, sometimes called a "natural" or shortened to "fro", is a hairstyle in which the hair extends out from the head like a halo or cloud. This may or may not include wearing such afros long, to several times the diameter of the head. An afro requires curly hair and often, but not always, Afro t..
Afro-American Life Insurance Company
The Afro-American Life Insurance Company an historic business based in Jacksonville, Florida founded in 1901 by Abraham Lincoln Lewis and his business associates. Background Up until the creation of this insurance company, black Americans found it difficult to purchase life insurance. The life ins..
Afro-American music
Afro-American music Afro-American: United States Afro-Latin music: Boogaloo - Salsa music - Louisiana Creole music: Zydeco - Tex-Mex and Tejano music: Conjunto - Corrido - Afro-Puerto Rican music: Aguinaldo - Bomba - Plena - Salsa music - African American music: Blues - Funk - Gospel music - Hip h..
Afro-American religion
Afro-American religions are a number of related religions that developed in the Americas among African slaves and their descendants in various countries of the Caribbean Islands, South America and parts of the southern United States. These ancient religions are generally based on the African concep..
Afro-Arab
Afro-Arab refers to a people identified as having sub-Saharan African origins, while living in Arab or Arabized nations. There are large communities of Afro-Arabs in Middle Eastern Arab countries as well as North Africa and western Europe, they have however, long lost their African identities, cla..
Afro-Argentines
Afro-Argentines Argentines of African descent. Though Argentina's population is overwhelmingly of white European descent, the city of Buenos Aires was a slave-trading port during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. At one point, thirty percent of Buenos Aires' population were black and mixed-race sla..
Afro-Asian Club Championship
The Afro-Asian Club Cup is played between the winners of the CAF Champions League and AFC Champions League. The competition was discontinued following a CAF decision on July 30, 2000, after AFC representatives had supported Germany rather than South Africa in the vote for hosting the 2006 World Cup...
Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
The Afro-Asian Cup of Nations is played between the winners of the Asian Cup and African Cup of Nations. The first edition in 1978, between Iran and Ghana, was cancelled midway through due to the political turmoil in Iran. The 1989 and 1999 editions were also cancelled. The competition was disconti..
Afro-Asian Games
The Afro-Asian Games held at Hyderabad, India in 2003 were the first such instance of a sporting event involving the two continents. Forty-one countries from Asia and fifty-four African nations took part in the inaugural event that had eight disciplines. The Games were held from October 24 to Novemb..
Afro-Asiatic languages
Map showing the distribution of African language families (Afro-Asiatic in yellow) The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia (inc..
Afro-Brazilian
Afro-Brazilian or African Brazilian is the term used to racially categorise Brazilian citizens of some or full Black African origin, yet it is rarely used in Brazil. Brazil has the largest population of black African origin outside of Africa with some 75 to 80 million Blacks, and even more of Afric..
Afro-Caribbean
Afro-Caribbean may refer to: the British Afro-Caribbean communityother members of the African diaspora in or from the Caribbean This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the l..
Afro-Cuban
The term Afro-Cuban refers to descendants of African slaves in Cuba, and to cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community. Apart from the obvious colour marker (phenotype), the term also refers back to religion, music, language, the arts, and class culture. Contents 1 Demo..
Afro-Cubans
The Afro-Cubans were a latin jazz band founded by Machito in 1940; often billed as Machito and his Afro-Cubans. Their musical director, and an important musical innovator, was Mario Bauza, Machito's brother-in-law. The Afro-Cubans combined Cuban music with orchestrations derived from swing. As well..
Afro-Cuban All-Stars
Afro-Cuban All-Stars is a Cuban band led by Juan de Marcos González (formerly tres player for Sierra Maestra). Their music is a mix of all the styles of Cuban music, including bolero, chachachá, salsa, son montuno, timba, guajira, danzón, rumba and abakua. They are especially well-known interna..
Afro-Cuban jazz
Afro-Cuban jazz is a variety of Latin jazz,which was started by Dr. Obdulio Morales in the 1930's,(Cuba). Other well-known variant of Latin jazz is Brazilian jazz. Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the U.S. directly after the bebop period, while Brazilian jazz became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s...
Afro-dite
Never Let It Go single cover. Afro-dite was a Swedish group made up of three pop singers. The group consisted of Blossom Tainton-Lindquist, Gladys del Pilar and Kayo Shekoni. Blossom has already been in showbusiness for a long time. She sings and dances, played in several musicals and even h..
Afro-Filipino
Afro-Filipino refers to the peoples of African or African-American and Filipino descent. There is a good population in both the United States and the Philippines, along with a smaller population present in parts of Western Europe. Famous Afro-Filipinos Casandra Ventura, also known as CassieAllan..
Afro-Germans
Afro-Germans (in German Afro-Deutsche) are defined as the Black African community and diaspora in Germany. Today, over 100,000 Germans are Afro-Germans, while there are easily twice as many additional foreign Afro-nationals living in Germany. Historic backgrounds vary; so does allocation: in par..
Afro-Guyanese
Afro-Guyanese are the inhabitants of Guyana of African origin. When planters made land available to East Indians in the late 1800s when they had denied land to the Africans several decades earlier, Afro-Guyanese resentment of other colonial ethnic groups was reinforced. The Afro-Guyanese people's pe..
Afro-juju
Afro-juju is a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of Jùjú music and Afrobeat. Its most famous exponent was Shina Peters, who was so popular that the press called the phenomenon "Shinamania". Afro-juju's peak of popularity came in the late 1980s. ..
Afro-Latin American
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Afro-Mexican
The term Afro-Mexican (Spanish: afro-mexicano) refers to Mexican citizens who are black or of African descent. Afro-Mexicans have historically been majorities in certain communities in Mexico. Although now largely assimilated in the population, they are concentrated mainly in coastal states such as ..
Afro-Peruvian
Afro-Peruvians are citizens of Peru descended from African slaves who were brought to the New World from the arrival of the conquistadores to the end of the slave trade. They make about 5 to 6% of the Peruvian population. Contents 1 Early history2 Afro-Bolivians in the Highlands3 S..
Afro-pessimism
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Afro-punk
Afro-punk is a 66-minute documentary, exploring race identity within the punk scene. It is also a term referring to African American and other African groups experience of punk culture. There are many such people: the bands Fishbone, Whole Wheat Bread, Bad Brains and 24-7 Spies have all include..
Afro-Rican
Afro-Rican is a popular bi-racial Miami Bass and Hip-Hop group, most famous for their genre shaping 1987 hit Give it All You Got (Doggy Style), as well as their 1995 hit All of Puerto Rico. The group is the brainchild of Derrick Rahming, and the remainder of the lineup has changed over the years. Mo..
Afro-rock
Afro Rock is a style of music which relies heavily on the use of Western string instruments (electric guitars and bass) and guitar effects played with a rock feel, but played in an african plucked style. The additional use of percussion helps refine and identify the music as African, while the vocal..
Afro-Seminole Creole
Afro-Seminole Creole is an English-based creole spoken in Brackettville, Texas, in the United States and in Nacimiento de los Negros, Coahuila, in Mexico. The number of speakers of Afro-Seminole Creole is around 200. Afro-Seminole Creole has no official status. It is related to the Gullah language, ..
Afro-Shirazi Party
The Afro-Shirazi Party was the union between the mostly Persian Shiraz Party and the mostly African Afro Party in the Island of Zanzibar. The formation of ASP led to the ouster of the Arabs from power with the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. ASP joined with the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU)..
Afro-Trinidadian people
Afro-Trinidadian people or Afro-Trinidadians refers to people of African descent who are citizens or nationals of Trinidad and Tobago. They are also referred to simply as African, black, Negro or Creole. Afro-Trinidadians account for 39.5% of the population of Trinidad and Tobago as of 2000. An ad..
Afro-Turks
Afro-Turks, African Turks, or Turkish Africans are people of African descent in Turkey. A number of Black Africans, usually from Sudan or Somalia were brought under the Ottoman Empire to plantations around Manavgat, Dalaman, Menderes and Gediz valleys and Çukurova. Some of their descendants can be..
Afro-Venezuelan
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Afroablepharus
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Afrob
Afrob (born Robert Zemichiel born in 1977 in Italy) is an Afro-German rapper. He is easily recognizable due to his trademark afro, from which his pseudonym is derived. Contents 1 Biography2 Discography2.1 Albums2.2 Singles3 External links Biography Hammer (2005) ..
Afrobean
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Afrobeat
Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the mid to late 1960s. Afrobeat's most famous artist was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who coined the term Afrobeat, constructed..
Afrobeata
Afrobeata is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Etymology Combined from Africa and Beata. Species Afrobeata firma Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 (Socotra)Afrobeata latithorax Caporiacco, 1941 (Ethiopia)Afrobeata magnifica Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 (Tanzania) ..
Afroburbanite or Afroburbanites
An Afroburbanite or Afroburbanites are people of (black) African-descent who have lived or moved to suburban communities around major urban centers. For example, around Houston, Texas (USA) Afroburbanites have clustered in the suburban cities of Missouri City, Pearland, and Sugarland – just t..
Afrocarpus
Afrocarpus is a genus of conifers belonging to the podocarp family Podocarpaceae. Afrocarpus was designated a genus in 1989, when several species formerly classified in Podocarpus and Nageia were reclassified. Six species are recognized. As the name intimates, Afrocarpus is native to Africa. The ..
Afrocentricity
For the book of this name, see Afrocentricity (book). Afrocentricity is an academic approach to data that places Africa and the experiences of diasporic peoples of African ancestry in the center of academic inquiry. Adherents of Afrocentricity argue that scholarship dealing with diasporal people..
Afrocentricity (book)
Afrocentricity is a book by Molefi Asante. Asante, who is responsible for bringing the term into common usage, has developed the concept through his works Afrocentricity (ISBN 0-86543-067-5), The Afrocentric Idea (ISBN 1-56639-595-X), and Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge (ISBN 0-86543-189-2). F..
Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism holds that Eurocentrism has led to the neglect or denial of the contributions of Africa's original peoples and focused instead on a generally European-centered model of world civilization and history. Therefore, Afrocentrism aims to shift the focus from a European-centered history to an..
Afrodisiac
Afrodisiac is the fourth album by American singer Brandy, released in the United States on June 29, 2004 (see 2004 in music) on Atlantic Records. The album was primarily produced by Timbaland, with additional production from Warryn Campbell and Kanye West. It reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard 200 c..
Afrodisiac (song)
"Afrodisiac" Single by Brandy From the albumAfrodisiac Released October 25, 2004 (EU) Format Digital downloadCD maxi single Length 3:47 Genre R&B Label Atlantic Writers TimbalandKenisha PrattKenneth Pratt Producers Timbaland Director Matthew Rolston Chart Positions #11 (UK) #25 (Fran..
Afrodiziak
Afrodiziak were the British singers Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine. They were best known for singing the backing vocals on Elvis Costello's 1983 album Punch the Clock (and on the international hit "Everyday I Write the Book"). They also sang for British dance pop outfit Heaven 17 and (as a trio,..
Afroedura
Classification of genus Afroedura: Afroedura africana : African Rock geckoAfroedura amatolica : Amatola Rock GeckoAfroedura bogerti : Bogert's Rock GeckoAfroedura hawequensis : Cape Rock GeckoAfroedura karroica : Inland Rock GeckoAfroedura nivaria ;: Drakensberg Rock GeckoAfroedura pondolia : Pon..
Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism, or afro-futurism, is an African diaspora subculture whose thinkers and artists see science, technology and science-fiction as means of exploring the black experience and finding new strategies to overcome oppression. Contents 1 Books2 Film and television3 Music4 ..
Afrogecko
Classification of genus Afrogecko: Afrogecko ansorgiiAfrogecko porphyreus : Marbled Leaf-toed GeckoAfrogecko swartbergensis : Swartberg African Leaf-toed Gecko ..
Afrology
Afrology is a scientific study of the organization of the contemporary social structures of Africa. It places in the heart of African social change the notion of identity. Afrology is a way of thinking about the various forms of social, institutional and personal identification. It posits that each..
Afroman
Afroman Afroman (born Joseph Edgar Foreman, on July 28, 1974) is a rap artist from South Central, Los Angeles, California. Contents 1 Life and career2 Albums2.1 ''My Fro-losophy'' (1999)2.2 '' Let's All Get DrunkHusler ManGotta Stop DrinkinI Live In A VanKeep It MovinF..
Afromarengo
Afromarengo is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Etymology Combined from Africa and the salticid genus Marengo. (See alse Indomarengo) Species Afromarengo coriacea (Simon, 1900) (Central, East, Southern Africa)Afromarengo lyrifera (Wanless, 1978) (Angola) External links ..
Afromontane
Afromontane is a term used to describe the plant and animal species common to the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. The afromontane regions of Africa are discontinuous, separated from each other by lowlands, and are sometimes referred to as the Afromontane archipelago, as their..
AfroNubians
The AfroNubians were a world music band based in Toronto. Its founders included Sudanese emigrant Tarig Abubakar (1964-1998) and Adam Solomon who would participate in the Juno Award winning album African Guitar Summit. The AfroNubians featured Canadian and African talent amongst its band members, i..
Afrophobia
Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg and friends, in The Adventures of two Dutch Dolls And A Golliwogg, published in 1895. Fashioned after a minstrel doll and described as "a horrid sight, the blackest gnome," he was the introduction to black people for many children. Afrophobia is a phobic attitu..
Afropithecus
Afropithecus was a primate that lived in Africa and Saudi Arabia during the early to middle Miocene. Morphology A. turkanensis teeth had a thick enamel cover. This cover may have been needed for the diet of Afropithecus, which might have consisted of nuts and other foods protected by a hard, du..
Afropop
Afropop or Afro-pop may refer to: Afropop or Afro-pop, African popular musicAfropop (radio program), a weekly radio program from Public Radio International ..
Afropop (radio program)
Afropop was a radio program launched by National Public Radio as a weekly series in 1988 when interest in international pop music was at an all-time high. The first of its kind, it later expanded to include the music and cultures of the entire African diaspora. The program continues as Afropop Wor..
Afrosoricida
The order Afrosoricida contains two families of small mammals that are traditionally considered to be a part of the order Insectivora. Traditionally, the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa were grouped with the hedgehogs, shrews and moles in the Lipotyphla. H..
Afrotheora
Afrotheora is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 7 described species, all found in southern Africa. Species A. argentimaculata - South AfricaA. brevivalva - TanzaniaA. flavimaculata - AngolaA. jordani - AngolaA. minirhodaula - South AfricaA. rhodaula - South AfricaA. thermodes -..
Afrotheria
Afrotheria is a clade of mammals with the rank of cohort, that has been proposed based on DNA analysis. Organization Afrotheria is a division of the Placentalia subclass of mammals, and groups together six existing orders of these animals: Afroinsectophila:Afrosoricida: tenrecs and golden molesPs..
Afrotropic
See Sub-Saharan Africa for other aspects. The Afrotropic is one of the earth's eight ecozones. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the southern and eastern fringes of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the..
Afrovenator
Afrovenator is a genus of megalosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of northern Africa. It was a bipedal predator, with a mouthful of sharp teeth and three claws on each hand. Judging from the one skeleton known, this dinosaur was approximately 30 feet (9 meters) long from s..
Afroyim v. Rusk
Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967)[#endnote_citation], was a United States Supreme Court decision that set an important legal precedent that a United States citizen cannot have his or her citizenship taken away involuntarily. Contents 1 Facts2 Issue3 Majority opinion4&n..
Afro Basaldella
Afro Basaldella (March 4, 1912 in Udine - July 24, 1976 in Zurich) was a notable Italian artist. In 1928, at just sixteen years of age, he showed his work along with that of his brothers Dino and Mirko, in the first and only Exhibition of the Friulian Avant-Garde. In 1930, thanks to a scholarship..
Afro Celt Sound System
The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms (trip-hop, techno, etc.) with Celtic and African influences. It was formed by Grammy-nominated producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and is considered to be somewhat of a world music supergroup, often having a wide range of ..
Afro Costa Rican
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Afro Jetz
Afro Jetz is the band of Dennis Lxyzén before Refused, Step Forward, The (International) Noise Conspiracy and other hardcore punk bands. The song, D.R.S.S. (Dirty Rotten Skate Society), was covered by Refused. ..
Afro Ken
Afro Ken characters. Afro Ken (アフロ犬) is a Japanese character created by the San-X company, which creates other anime-style characters such as Kogepan. He is a dog with a rainbow-coloured afro. He is innocent and blameless and always in a good mood. Afro Ken is always willing to try ne..
Afro Medusa
Afro Medusa is a dance music trio consisting of vocalist Isabel Fructuoso, Nick Bennett and Patrick Cole. They have placed two songs on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, beginning with "Pasilda," which hit #1 in 2000. In 2003 they climbed to #26 with "Dreams." At the end of 2005 they released t..
Afro prog
Afro prog is a genre of progressive rock music with a distinct African cultural or subcultural flavor. This term first appeared on usenet in an Italian language progressive rock discussion forum in 1999. In the late 60s, artists around the world were experimenting with combining established style..
Afro Puffs
"Afro Puffs" Single by The Lady of Rage From the album VA 2 LA / Above the Rim soundtrack feauturing Snoop Doggy Dogg Single Released September 6,1994 Single Format 12" single, cassette Genre Rap Song Length 4:50 (8:05 extended mix) (5:43 video version) Record Label Interscope/Death Row Re..
Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai is an intellectual property created by Takashi Okazaki. It was first manifest in a short manga found in a Japanese underground collection "Nononhow" in 1999. Afro Samurai is most notable for the involvement of American actor Samuel L. Jackson as the lead voice-over in the upc..
Afro textured hair
Afro textured hair (also casually referred to as "nappy" hair, "kinky" hair or "wooly" hair) is the type of hair found among most people of sub-saharan African descent. Overview This type of hair is extremely tightly coiled, with a thick and compact appearance and feel. The hair's texture is simila..
Afro Thunder
Afro Thunder in his default attire. Afro Thunder is a video game character in the popular boxing game Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and [[Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2]]. Born in New York City, he first makes is trade as a taxi driver. However, when times get hard he turns to the boxing ring. In the..
A Free Soul
A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously gotten an acquittal for on a murder charge. A Fr..
A Frenzy of Music and Action!
A Frenzy of Music and Action! is the 1992 release by the Swamp Zombies on Doctor Dream Records. Track listing GreenUnemployedOddballThree Deep ThinkersI BawledDamnedest ThingPuerto AngelLemon GirlJohnny QuestMountain ManBefore You Just Do ItGo Go BootsTrack 13Ballad of Ed Gein (available on CD)..
A Fresh Aire Christmas
A Fresh Aire Christmas was the second Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album was originally released in 1988. Track listing "Hark! The Herald Trumpets Sing""Hark! The Herald Angels Sing""Veni Veni (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)""The Holly and the Ivy""Little ..
A Fresh Start (Ōban Star-Racers)
"A Fresh Start" is the pilot episode of the series Ōban Star-Racers. Plot Prologue In the second quarter of the 21st century, the advent of sub-light transportation marked the beginning of an unprecedented wave of human expansion. Human explorers discovered new planetary systems and colonized ..
A Friend of the Earth
A Friend of the Earth T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth (2000) is a story of environmental destruction. The novel is set in 2025; as a result of global warming and the greenhouse effect, the climate has drastically changed, and, accordingly, biodiversity is a thing of the past..
A Frolic of His Own
A Frolic of His Own is a novel by William Gaddis. Published in 1994 by Poseidon Press, A Frolic of His Own was Gaddis's fourth novel. It received the American Book Award and the National Book Award in 1994. External links [Annotations to A Frolic of His Own at williamgaddis.org] ..

 

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