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African-American assemblage
African-American assemblage is a tradition of three-dimensional art made from found and discarded objects that developed among African-American artists, above all in Los Angeles, from the 1960s onward.
African-American culture
African-American culture, also called Black American culture, is the languages, religious practices, music, foodways, and crafts developed by Black Americans, shaped by slavery, segregation, and racism.
African-American English
African-American English (AAE, also AAVE or African American Language) is the umbrella term for English varieties spoken by African Americans, from Gullah creole to formal styles, with rule-governed features like habitual be and copula absence, a contested creole-versus-English origin debate, and documented bias against it in schools and AI systems.
African-American family structure
African-American family structure, also called Black American family structure, describes the household and kinship arrangements of Black families in the United States, which changed markedly after 1960.
African-American Flag
African-American Flag is a 1990 artwork by American artist David Hammons that recolors the American flag's stars and stripes in the Pan-African red, black, and green.
African-American LGBTQ community
African-American LGBTQ community: Black Americans identifying as LGBTQ or same-gender-loving. Known for Harlem Renaissance queer artists, Bayard Rustin, 1970s groups like the Association of Black Gays, and intersectional stigma research.
African-American literature
African-American literature: writing by Americans of African descent from the 18th century to today, spanning slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and contemporary fiction.
African-American muralism
African-American muralism is the tradition of large-scale wall painting by and for Black communities in the United States, spanning the New Deal, the 1967 Wall of Respect, and 2020's Black Lives Matter murals.
African-American music
African-American music: sacred and secular music created by Black Americans, from spirituals and blues to gospel, jazz, R&B, soul, and rap, rooted in African traditions brought by enslaved people.
African-American names
African-American names are given names used disproportionately by black Americans, a tradition traceable to the antebellum era: about 3% name-holding then and now, biblical and empowerment names early, civil-rights-era names later.
African-American newspaper preservation and digitization projects
African-American newspaper preservation and digitization projects convert Black-owned newspapers into searchable digital collections, led by Howard University's Black Press Archives, the Library of Congress's National Digital Newspaper Program, and commercial vendors.
African-American pottery
African-American pottery is the ceramic tradition made by enslaved and free Black potters in the United States, including colonoware, Edgefield alkaline-glazed stoneware, and David Drake's verse-inscribed jars.
African-American press
African-American press: newspapers and magazines owned and edited by Black Americans, beginning with Freedom's Journal (1827, Cornish and Russwurm) and including the Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier, serving as advocacy journalism for Black communities.
African-American quiltmaking
African-American quiltmaking is the tradition of patchwork quilting among Black communities in the United States since the 19th century, best known through the bold, improvisational quilts of Gee's Bend, Alabama.
African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Ebonics or African American Language, is the rule-governed English variety of many working-class African Americans, marked by habitual be, null copula, consonant cluster reduction, and debated creole versus British dialect origins.
African-led International Support Mission to Mali
The African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA; French: MISMA) was an African Union and ECOWAS peace operation deployed in Mali from January 2013 to July 2013.
African, Oceanic and diaspora theatre (overview)
African, Oceanic and diaspora theater is a family of performance traditions rooted in ritual, festival, and oral art, staged for whole communities and only later supplemented by scripted drama.
Africanfuturism
Africanfuturism is a subgenre of science fiction defined by Nnedi Okorafor as rooted in African culture, history, and mythology, similar to Afrofuturism but not centering the West.
Africanized bee
Africanized honey bee (killer bee), Apis mellifera scutellata hybrid, formed after 26 African queens escaped in Brazil in 1957; more defensive, swarms over 10 times yearly, reached Texas in 1990.
Africanus Horton (Mercurian crater)
Africanus Horton is a 140-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 50.96°S, 41.19°W, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for the Sierra Leonean author and folklorist James Beale (1835-1883).
Africatown
Africatown (African Town) is a Mobile, Alabama neighborhood founded in 1866 by survivors of the Clotilda, the last US slave ship (1860, 110 captives); National Register district since 2012, Heritage House museum opened 2023.
AfricInvest
AfricInvest is a pan-African private equity, venture capital, and private credit firm founded in Tunis in 1994 as Tuninvest by Ziad Oueslati, Aziz Mebarek, and Karim Trad, financing over 230 companies in 38 countries.
AfriCOBRA
AfriCOBRA is an African American artist collective founded in 1968 on Chicago's South Side, known for bright "Kool-Aid" colors and positive images of Black life.
Africultures
Africultures is a French non-profit association and media platform founded in 1997 to document and critique contemporary African cultures, publishing a website, a revue, and the magazine Afriscope.
Africville
Africville was a predominantly African Nova Scotian village on the Bedford Basin in Halifax, razed by the city between 1964 and 1970 for urban renewal; also called Campbell Road settlement, it received a 2010 apology and $3 million settlement.
Afridi
Afridi (Aprīdī), a major Pashtun tribe of the Karlāni lineage centered on the Khyber Pass and Tirah in northwest Pakistan, organized into eight clans, historically resisting Mughal and British control; the name also belongs to figures such as Sohail Afridi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister.
Afrighid dynasty
The Afrighid dynasty (Āl-e Afrīḡ) was the line of Khwarazmshahs who ruled Khwarazm from 305 until 995, when the Maʾmunids overthrew it, known chiefly through Bīrūnī's list of kings.
Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa (Lance Taylor, 1957–2026), Bronx DJ called the Godfather of Hip Hop, founded the Universal Zulu Nation and made 1982's electro-funk landmark "Planet Rock"; later accused of child sexual abuse.
Afrika Korps
Afrika Korps (Deutsches Afrika Korps, DAK), German army corps formed February 1941 in Libya under Erwin Rommel to reinforce Italy; fought the Western Desert campaign, took Tobruk in 1942, was broken at El Alamein and defeated in Tunisia in May 1943.
Afrikaans
Afrikaans, a West Germanic daughter language of 17th-century Dutch spoken in South Africa and Namibia; official since 1925, simplified grammar versus Dutch, asymmetric mutual intelligibility, varieties including Kaaps.