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African influence on Cubism
African influence on Cubism was the encounter, beginning around 1905 in Paris, between the European avant-garde and African sculpture, contributing to a break from Western pictorial convention.
African Journal of International and Comparative Law
The African Journal of International and Comparative Law (AJICL, AfrJICL; ISSN 0954-8890) is a peer-reviewed, bilingual English-French law journal founded in 1989 and published since 2005 by Edinburgh University Press, covering public and private international law from a pan-African viewpoint, indexed in Scopus (Q3) and WoS ESCI.
African Lakes Corporation
The African Lakes Corporation, founded in Glasgow in 1878 as the Livingstonia Central Africa Company, was a Scottish trading and transport company in Nyasaland, now Malawi.
African leopard
African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus), nominate leopard subspecies of sub-Saharan Africa; solitary nocturnal ambush predator, 17–90 kg; Vulnerable, ~44,800–142,600 remain, 41% of historic range lost.
African literature
African literature: oral and written literary expression in African and colonial languages. Key phases are colonial, post-colonial, contemporary; central figures include Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
African Literature Today
African Literature Today (ALT) is an international journal of African literary criticism founded in London in 1968, the oldest in its field, now published annually as themed volumes.
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, or AME Church, is an independent, predominantly Black Methodist denomination founded in Philadelphia in 1816, with Richard Allen as its first bishop.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or AME Zion, is a historically Black Methodist denomination founded in New York City in 1796, known as the "Freedom Church."
African Mineworkers' Union
The African Mineworkers' Union, formed in 1949, was the trade union of African copper miners in Northern Rhodesia, winning big wage gains and a first major strike in 1952.
African modernism
African modernism is the modernist art, architecture, and visual culture made by African artists, most prominently from the late 1950s through the 1970s, as newly independent states sought cultural forms equal to their political independence.
African National Congress
African National Congress (ANC), South African party founded 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein as the SANNC; led anti-apartheid struggle, ruled from 1994, lost its majority in 2024 and now leads a coalition government.
African National Congress Youth League
African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL): youth wing of South Africa's ANC, founded 2 April 1944 by Anton Lembede, Mandela, Mda, Sisulu, and Tambo; banned 1960, relaunched 1991 under Peter Mokaba; Malema expelled 2012.
African nationalism
African nationalism: movements and ideologies seeking to end European colonial rule in Africa and build sovereign states, closely tied to Pan-Africanism (Sylvester-Williams, Du Bois, Garvey, Nkrumah), the 1945 Manchester Congress, and post-independence nation-building tensions.
African nations at the FIFA World Cup
African nations at the FIFA World Cup: CAF men's teams at the finals. Egypt debuted 1934; Morocco reached the 2022 semi-final; a record 10 African teams played at the 2026 World Cup, with nine reaching the Round of 32.
African Nations Championship
African Nations Championship (CHAN), Championnat d'Afrique des Nations, CAF's biennial tournament for home-based players only, held 2009-2025; DR Congo and Morocco dominant, ended by CAF in January 2026.
African Nations League
African Nations League: proposed annual CAF national-team competition announced 22 December 2025 with FIFA partnership, 54 nations, zonal and Pan-African categories, planned 2029 start, still unconfirmed.
African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
The African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty, known as the Treaty of Pelindaba, prohibits nuclear explosive devices across Africa and entered into force on July 15, 2009.
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde), founded 19 September 1956 in Bissau by Amílcar Cabral, led Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde to independence from Portugal and remains Guinea-Bissau's largest party, now divided after the November 2025 coup.
African penguin
African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), jackass penguin, black-footed penguin: the only penguin breeding in Africa, endemic to South Africa and Namibia; IUCN Critically Endangered since October 2024, with about 9,900 breeding pairs left and 2025 no-fishing zones around six colonies.
African philosophy
African philosophy: philosophy from and about Africa, spanning oral traditions and academic work; shaped by the ethnophilosophy debate over Tempels' Bantu Philosophy, Hountondji's critique, Oruka's four trends, and Ubuntu.
African Plate
The African Plate is a major tectonic plate covering the African continent and adjoining Atlantic and Indian Ocean floor, slowly splitting into the Nubian and Somalian plates.
African playwrights
African playwrights are the writers of performed drama across the continent, working in indigenous languages, English, French, and Portuguese, and blending traditional performance with written theater.
African Pygmies
African Pygmies: Congo Basin hunter-gatherer peoples (Baka, Aka, Mbuti, Efe, Twa), separated from Bantu farmers over 60,000 years ago, convergently short-statured, speaking borrowed farmer languages, and facing land dispossession and discrimination.
African Queen (music)
"African Queen" is a 2004 love ballad by Nigerian singer 2Face Idibia from his debut album Face 2 Face, later named Billboard's greatest Afrobeats song.
African Queens
African Queens is a 2023 Netflix docudrama series from Jada Pinkett Smith's Westbrook Studios and Nutopia, covering Queen Njinga of Angola (season 1) and Queen Cleopatra (season 2), with mixed critical and audience reception.
African Rally Championship
The African Rally Championship is the FIA's regional rally championship for Sub-Saharan Africa, first held in 1981, with Zambia's Satwant Singh its most successful driver at eight titles.
African red slip ware
African Red Slip ware (ARS, sigillata africana, terra sigillata chiara) is Roman fine tableware with red fabric and transparent slip, made in Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya from the 1st to 7th century AD and exported across the Mediterranean; term coined by John Hayes.
African Renaissance Monument
The African Renaissance Monument (Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is a 49-metre bronze statue on the Collines des Mamelles in Dakar, Senegal, unveiled 3 April 2010 by President Abdoulaye Wade, designed by Pierre Goudiaby, built by North Korea, and marked by cost and religious controversy.
African representation in the French National Assembly (1945–1958)
African representation in the French National Assembly (1945–1958) was the system by which French West Africa, French Equatorial Africa, Togo, and Cameroon elected deputies to the French Parliament.
African safari (Ukraine)
African safari (Африканське сафарі) is a themed Africa exposition at Kharkiv Zoo, Ukraine, in three buildings holding lions, hyenas, pelicans, hippos, crocodiles, lemurs, and fruit bats, part of the zoo reopened in 2021.