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African or Africans may refer to: * Anything from or pertaining to the continent of Africa: ** People who are native to Africa, descendants of natives of Africa, or individuals who trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa *** Ethnic groups of Africa *** Demographics of Africa *** African diaspora ** African, an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to the African Union ** Citizenship of the African Union ** Demographics of the African Union **Africanfuturism ** African art ** *** African jazz (other) ** African cuisine ** African culture ** African languages ** African music ** African Union ** African lion, a lion population in Africa Books and radio * ''The African'' (essay), a story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio * ''The African'' (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton * ''The African'' (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander * ''The Africans'' (radio program) Music * "African", a song by Peter T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Lion
The lion (''Panthera leo'') is a large cat of the genus '' Panthera'' native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane. It is a social species, forming groups called ''prides''. A lion's pride consists of a few adult males, related females, and cubs. Groups of female lions usually hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The lion is an apex and keystone predator; although some lions scavenge when opportunities occur and have been known to hunt humans, lions typically don't actively seek out and prey on humans. The lion inhabits grasslands, savannas and shrublands. It is usually more diurnal than other wild cats, but when persecuted, it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. During the Neolithic period, the lion ranged throughout Africa and Eurasia from Southeast Europe to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africana (other)
Africana may refer to: In arts and entertainment Music * ''Africana'', album by Chaino * ''Africana'', album by Teresa De Sio * "Africana", song by Romanian singer Delia Matache Publications * ''Encyclopedia Africana'' (1999), a compendium of Africana studies * ''Philosophia Africana'', a peer-reviewed academic journal of Africana philosophy established in 1998 * '' Polyglotta Africana'', an 1854 study comparing 156 African languages Other uses * Africana studies, the study of the histories, politics and cultures of peoples of African origin * Africana Museum (now MuseuMAfricA), historical museum in Johannesburg, South Africa * Africana (artifacts), cultural artifacts relating to African history and culture * Africana (coral), a genus of stony corals in the family Caryophylliidae * Africana (sheep), a breed of domesticated sheep found in Colombia and Venezuela * Galinha à Africana, a barbecued chicken dish of Portuguese origin * Hotel Africana, hotel in Kampala, Uganda * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geography Of Africa
Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface. Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of , excluding adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Mount Kilimanjaro, its largest lake is Lake Victoria. Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (which is transected by the Suez Canal), wide. For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa. From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia, at 37°21′ N, to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas in South Africa, 34°51′15″ S, is a distance approximately of ; from Cap-Vert, 17°31′13″W, the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun in the Somali Puntland region, in the Horn of Africa, 51°27′52″ E, the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Africans (band)
The Africans were a Jamaican reggae group of the 1970s, who recorded on the Federal Records Federal Records was an American record label founded in 1950 as a subsidiary of Syd Nathan's King Records and based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was run by famed record producer Ralph Bass and was mainly devoted to Rhythm & Blues releases. The compa ... and Belmont labels.Sing Out! - Volumes 23-24 - Page 23 1974 "It was recorded by the Africans on the Federal label" Discography *"Cock Mouth Kill Cock" / Joe Higgs B: "The World Upside Down" - Roosevelt 1971 *"Sleeping In The Rain" / B: "Version" - Federal 1973 *"Why Worry" / B: "Why Worry Version" - Federal 1973 *"Sweet Mary Lou" / B: "Gratitude" - Federal 1973 *"Get Wey De Duck Get" / B: "Quack! Quack!" - Federal 1975 *"Tribulation" / Sky Nation B: "Trial Dub" - High Note Jamaica 1975 *"Gathering" / B: "Version" - Wild Flower Jamaica 1975 *"King Of The Congo" / B: "Congo Dub" - High Note Jamaica 1976 *"Cool In Down" / B: "Cool I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Equal Rights (album)
''Equal Rights'' is the second studio album by Peter Tosh. It was released in 1977 (see 1977 in music) on Columbia Records. Content The song "Get Up, Stand Up", which was co-written by Bob Marley, was originally a single by Tosh's previous band, The Wailers, from their 1973 album '' Burnin'''. " Downpressor Man" is a cover of " Sinner Man". "I Am that I Am" refers to a religious concept commonly referred to by that phrase. Track listing All songs composed and arranged by Peter Tosh except as shown. ;Side 1 #"Get Up, Stand Up" – 3:29 (Tosh, Bob Marley) #" Downpressor Man" – 6:25 #"I Am that I Am" – 4:28 #"Stepping Razor" (Joe Higgs; credited to Tosh) – 5:47 ;Side 2 #"Equal Rights" – 5:58 #"African" – 3:41 #" Jah Guide" – 4:29 #"Apartheid" – 5:31 ;Track listing on "The Definitive Remasters" 2002 EMI CD release #"Get Up, Stand Up" #"Downpressor Man" #"I Am That I Am" #"Stepping Razor" #"Equal Rights" #"African" #"Jah Guide" #"Apartheid" #"400 Years" #"Hammer" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Africans (radio Program)
''The Africans'' was a series of five fifteen-minute programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during 2007, introduced by Nigerian journalist Ken Wiwa, whose father Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government in 1995. The series attempted to give a more positive or different view of Africa than the commonly held pessimistic one, by interviewing "ordinary people doing extraordinary things" in different parts of the continent. The series was produced by Caroline Pare. The programme interviewed Africans living in Kenya, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and South Africa and focused on the everyday lives of people working for social change, democratisation and progress in their own local communities. The series bore a resemblance to Radio 4's ''Crossing Continents ''Crossing Continents'' is a half-hour BBC Radio 4 documentary strand focusing on foreign affairs issues. It takes listeners right to the heart of story through its on-location reporting and feature making. The program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The African (Courlander Novel)
''The African'' is a 1967 novel by Harold Courlander. Plot A young African boy, Hwesuhunu, is kidnapped from his homeland by French slave traders, and endures the terrors of the Middle Passage and being sold into slavery. Hwesuhunu is brought to the island of Saint Lucia, and is later sold to a Georgia plantation for US$100. Controversy The novel became the subject of controversy when it was revealed that author Alex Haley had plagiarized sections of ''The African'' for his 1976 novel ''Roots'' which later was made into a 1977 television miniseries, a 1979 sequel miniseries, and a 2016 television miniseries remake. In 1978, Haley paid Harold Courlander Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 – March 15, 1996) was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist and an expert in the study of Haitian life. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialize ... and his publisher $650,000 as out-of-court settlement of the lawsuit. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The African (Conton Novel)
''The African'' is the 1964 debut novel by Sierra Leonean novelist and educator William Farquhar Conton. It was the 12th work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series. The novel's plot revolves around the romance between a black African student and a white South African woman in England. Themes and style The novel turns autobiographical elements into a call for Africa to move as a continent beyond apartheid. Wole Soyinka criticised its utopian "love optimism", calling the novel's main character, Kamara, an "unbelievable prig".Wole Soyinka, ''Myth, Literature, and the African World'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Reception Contemporary reviewer Mercedes Mackay describe the novel as a "promising first novel" which excels in highlighting the author's "rich sense of humor" and his role as "a fine philosopher". Mackay compared the novel to the debuts of Cyprian Ekwensi (''People of the City''), Chinua Achebe (''Things Fall Apart'') and Kamara Laye (''The Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The African (essay)
"The African" (french: L'Africain) is a short autobiographical essay written by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio. Subject In writing "''L'Africain''", Le Clézio reflects on his childhood in 1948 when he was 8 years old. According to the publisher he left Nice with his mother and brother to meet his father who was a doctor in Nigeria. His father remained there during the war but was too far away from the wife he loved and too far away from their two children (he had not seen either of these children growing up). In this short book Le Clézio remembers his father, who was a "jungle doctor" first in British Guiana and then in Southern Cameroons and Nigeria. Here you can find Le Clézio's thoughts about his African childhood and about life in remote places. "''L'Africain''", the story of the author’s father, is at once a reconstruction, a vindication, and the recollection of a boy who lived in the shadow of a stranger he was obliged to love. He remembers through the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Music
Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions. African music includes the genres amapiano, Jùjú, Fuji, Afrobeat, Highlife, Makossa, Kizomba, and others. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca. Latin American music genres such as cumbia, conga, rumba, son cubano, salsa music, bomba, samba and zouk were founded on the music of enslaved Africans, and have in turn influenced African popular music. Like the music of Asia, India and the Middle East, it is a highly rhythmic music. The complex rhythmic patterns often involving one rhythm played against another to create a polyrhythm. The most common polyrhythm plays three beats on top of two, like a triplet played against straight notes. Sub-Saharan African m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Groups Of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan populations. The official population count of the various ethnic groups in Africa is highly uncertain, both due to limited infrastructure to perform censuses and due to the rapid population growth. There have also been accusations of deliberate misreporting in order to give selected ethnicities numerical superiority (as in the case of Nigeria's Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo peoples). A 2009 genetic clustering study, which genotyped 1327 polymorphic markers in various African populations, identified six ancestral clusters. The clustering corresponded closely with ethnicity, culture and language. A 2018 whole genome sequencing study of the world's populations observed similar clusters among the populations in Africa. At K=9, distinct ance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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