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AFP
AFP (alpha-fetoprotein, HGNC 317, gene ID 174) is a fetal serum glycoprotein at 4q13.3, the albumin family's fetal counterpart, used as an HCC and pregnancy biomarker; distinct from Agent Federation Protocol and ATLAS Forward Proton.
Aframax
An Aframax is a medium-size crude oil tanker of roughly 80,000 to 120,000 deadweight tons that fits most major crude loading and discharge ports without canal constraints.
Aframomum
Aframomum K.Schum., a genus of about 63 accepted species of rhizomatous Zingiberaceae herbs native to tropical Africa and Madagascar; includes A. melegueta, grains of paradise or alligator pepper, a West African spice and medicinal plant.
Afrânio Coutinho
Afrânio Coutinho, born Afrânio dos Santos Coutinho (1911–2000), was a Brazilian literary critic and professor who renewed Brazilian criticism on aesthetic criteria and organized A Literatura no Brasil.
Afrânio de Melo Franco
Afrânio de Melo Franco (1870–1943) was a Brazilian lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as ambassador to the League of Nations and became Getúlio Vargas's first foreign minister in 1930.
Afrasiyab I
Afrasiyab I (افراسیاب) was a Hazaraspid atabeg of Greater Lorestan under the Mongol Il-khanate. Son of Yusuf Shah I, he rebelled against the Il-khans and was executed in 1296.
Afreen Afreen
"Afreen Afreen" (آفرین آفرین) is a qawwali song written by Javed Akhtar and composed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, best known from Coke Studio Pakistan's 2016 rendition.
Afreximbank
Afreximbank, the African Export-Import Bank, is a multilateral trade finance institution established in 1993 and headquartered in Cairo, Egypt, to promote and finance intra- and extra-African trade, with US$48.5 billion in assets at end-2025.
Africa
Africa, the second-largest continent, spans over 30 million km² across 54 countries in five regions. Known for the Sahara, Sahel, Great Rift Valley, rapid urbanization, and disproportionate climate change burden.
Africa (Roman province)
Africa (Africa Proconsularis) was a Roman province founded in 146 BC after Carthage's destruction, governed by a senatorial proconsul from Carthage, a major grain and olive-oil source, ending with the Arab conquest of 698.
Africa Corps (Африканский корпус) (Russia)
Africa Corps (Африканский корпус) is Russia's Ministry of Defense formation replacing the Wagner Group in Africa after Prigozhin's August 2023 death; state-funded, GRU-linked, deployed in Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
Africa Cricket Association
Africa Cricket Association (ACA), continental cricket body founded 1997 in Harare, headquarters Benoni, South Africa; coordinates development, Africa Cup T20, women's championships, and ICC qualifiers for its roughly 21-23 African member countries.
Africa Cup of Nations
Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), CAF's men's continental football championship since 1957; 24 teams since 2019; Egypt record seven titles; Morocco 2025 final disputed; four-year cycle from 2028.
Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics
Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics: AFCON, CAF's continental football championship since 1957. Egypt leads with 7 titles and 27 appearances; Eto'o holds 18 finals goals; Morocco awarded the 2025 title on appeal.
Africa Express (organization)
Africa Express is a British music organization founded in 2006 by Damon Albarn and Ian Birrell, staging collaborative shows and train tours pairing African and Western artists; not to be confused with the financial-services firm African Express.
Africa Movie Academy Awards
The Africa Movie Academy Awards, known as AMAA, honor exceptional African and diaspora filmmaking; founded by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe in 2005, they use an international jury.
Africa Museum
Africa Museum (Afrika Múzeum), Balatonederics, Hungary: private museum and mini zoo founded by hunter Dr. Endre Nagy around his Tanzanian trophy collection, brought home in 1984.
Africa Re
Africa Re, formally the African Reinsurance Corporation, is a pan-African intergovernmental reinsurance group established at Yaoundé, Cameroon, in 1976 by 36 African states and the African Development Bank.
Africa Safari Park
Africa Safari Park (Africano Park, أفريكانو بارك) is a drive-through safari zoo at kilometer 65 of the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road in Beheira, Egypt, self-described as Egypt's and the Middle East's first safari park, with car entry at 1,500 LE.
Africa's Cultural Revolution
Africa's Cultural Revolution is a 1973 collection of essays by the Ugandan poet and anthropologist Okot p'Bitek, published in Nairobi, arguing for African cultural renewal and literature in African languages.
African American history
African American history covers enslavement (246 years), Reconstruction amendments, Jim Crow, the Great Migration of six million Southerners (1916-1970), the Harlem Renaissance, and civil rights legislation of 1964-1968.
African American literary criticism
African American literary criticism is the body of theory and debate on African American literature, running from the Harlem Renaissance through the Black Aesthetic era to today's academic field.
African American–Korean American relations
African American–Korean American relations cover Black–Korean merchant-customer tensions, the 1991 Latasha Harlins killing, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the Black-Korean Alliance, model-minority dynamics, and later coalition and cultural developments.
African Americans
African Americans: Americans with origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa, also called Black Americans. Defined by slavery, emancipation, the 1915–1970 Great Migration of 6.5 million, and civil rights; one in ten Black U.S. residents are immigrants.
African Americans in the Revolutionary War
Free and enslaved Black Americans served on both sides of the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 for the Patriots and about 20,000 for the British.
African Americans in the United States Congress
African Americans in the United States Congress: history of Black senators and representatives since Hiram Revels, first Black senator seated February 25, 1870; Reconstruction peak, exclusion after 1901, Edward Brooke's 1967 return, and the 62-member Congressional Black Caucus of the 119th Congress.
African art
African art: visual art of the African continent, centered on sub-Saharan traditions spanning sculpture, textiles, script, and performance, its colonial-era dispersal (Benin bronzes 1897), restitution, and the modern and contemporary African art market.
African Beauty International
African Beauty International: name shared by three unrelated organisations, a Belgian non-profit charity in Aalst founded by Thecla Mbunwe, a South African pageant franchise holder owned by Bokang Montjane-Tshabalala, and a US wholesale distributor.
African blues
African blues is a label for blues traditions and blues-adjacent guitar music from African countries, most prominently Mali and the Tuareg communities of the Sahara, named after Ali Farka Touré's 1990 album.
African Books Collective
African Books Collective is an African-owned, not-for-profit marketing and distribution outlet for books from Africa, headquartered in Oxford, England, and serving more than 150 African publishers.