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Afrikaans children's literature
Afrikaans children's literature is literature written in Afrikaans for children and young readers in South Africa and Namibia, thriving since the 1950s and among Africa's most productive.
Afrikaans essay
An Afrikaans essay, known in schools as the opstel, is a prose composition written in Afrikaans, spanning school examination writing and the literary essay of Afrikaans literature.
Afrikaans prose poem
The Afrikaans prose poem (prosagedig) is a poem written in continuous, unlineated prose, and its lack of a fixed form gives the poet more freedom than verse.
Afrikaans travel literature
Afrikaans travel literature (reisverhaal, reisbeskrywing) is the body of travel writing in Afrikaans, among the oldest strands of South African literature, reaching back to Jan van Riebeeck's 1651 journal.
Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool
Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies), a public Afrikaans-medium boys' high school in Clydesdale, Pretoria, founded 28 January 1920; separate girls' school created 1930; strong 2025 matric pass rate of 100%.
Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner nationalism: ethnic movement uniting Afrikaners (Boers) around Afrikaans language, Calvinist religion, and Great Trek memory; Broederbond and National Party produced apartheid.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Afrikaner Resistance Movement, far-right Afrikaner group founded 1973 in Heidelberg by Eugene Terre'Blanche, seeking a volkstaat like the old Boer republics; known for the failed 1994 Bophuthatswana incursion.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners: white South African ethnic group descended mainly from Dutch, German, and French settlers at the Cape from 1652; Afrikaans-speaking; Great Trek, Boer republics, apartheid-era National Party rule; about 2.7 million people.
Afro
The Afro is a hairstyle in which tightly curled natural hair is grown into a rounded shape, rising to prominence with the 1960s Civil Rights and Black Power movements.
Afro B
Afro B, born Ross-Emmanuel Bayeto in 1993 in London to Ivorian parents, is a British DJ-turned-artist best known for the 2018 single "Drogba (Joanna)" and his Afrowave sound.
Afro house
Afro house is a house-music subgenre, tied to South Africa, mixing a 115–125 BPM four-on-the-floor kick with layered African percussion and vocals. Distinct from log-drum-driven amapiano; key artists include Black Coffee and Keinemusik; it surged globally on Beatport and Splice in the 2020s.
Afro Nation
Afro Nation is an Afrobeats festival founded by Nigerian-born promoter SMADE and Obi Asika, first held in 2019 in Portimão, Portugal, and now called the world's biggest Afrobeats festival.
Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ)
Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ) is a Japanese action manga by Takashi Okazaki, set in a futuristic feudal Japan and best known through its 2007 anime starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Afro-Argentines
Afro-Argentines (afroargentinos): people in Argentina identifying as Afro-descendant or with African ancestors; 302,936 people, 0.7% of the 2022 census, concentrated in Buenos Aires, with candombe as the emblematic cultural tradition.
Afro-Asians
Afro-Asians are people of mixed African and Asian heritage and communities of African descent in Asia, formed by over a millennium of Indian Ocean migration and slavery, and by 20th-century Afro-Asian solidarity such as the 1955 Bandung Conference.
Afro-Brazilian religious art
Afro-Brazilian religious art spans sacred objects made for Candomblé and Umbanda rituals and works by artists like Rubem Valentim who translate the religions' symbols into fine art.
Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians (afro-brasileiros), Brazilians of African descent including the census categories pardo and preto, number about 51% of the population per World Bank estimates, the largest Afro-descendant population outside Africa, marked by slavery's legacy, income and police-violence disparities, race quotas, capoeira, and Candomblé.
Afro-Cuban art
Afro-Cuban art is the visual, performative, and religious art of Cuba rooted in African-descended cultures, ranging from Santería ritual objects and batá drumming to modernist painting.
Afro-Cuban Tales
Afro-Cuban Tales is the English title of Cuentos negros de Cuba, Lydia Cabrera's foundational 1940 collection of Afro-Cuban folktales drawn from lucumí and congo oral tradition, translated into English in 2004.
Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia, also Afroeurasia or the Old World, is the combined landmass of Africa, Europe, and Asia, Earth's largest contiguous land area, formed by plate collisions over the last 40 million years and linked by Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and trans-Saharan trade networks.
Afro-Germans
Afro-Germans (Afrodeutsche, Black Germans) are Germans of African descent, from colonial-era migrants through Nazi persecution and postwar occupation children to today's roughly 1.3 million-strong community with ISD advocacy and Afrozensus data.
Afro-Jamaicans
Afro-Jamaicans, also called Black Jamaicans, are Jamaicans of African descent who formed 92.09 percent of the population in the 2011 census and underpin Jamaican culture.
Afro-Mexicans
Afro-Mexicans: Mexicans of African descent, 2,576,213 self-identified in the 2020 census (2.04%), concentrated in Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Veracruz; constitutionally recognized in 2019 and as public-law subjects in 2024.
Afro-pop (Ghana)
Afro-pop is the Ghanaian strand of pop-Afrobeats, blending highlife melodies and rhythms with drum-machine Afrobeats; King Promise is its leading figure, and the Telecel Ghana Music Awards honor it with dedicated categories.
Afro-Russians
Afro-Russians, also called Black Russians, are Russian citizens of African ancestry, mostly children of African students who studied in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Afro-Shirazi Party
The Afro-Shirazi Party was a political party in Zanzibar, formed in 1957 and led by Abeid Karume, that led the 1964 revolution and ruled as the sole legal party.
Afro-Surrealism
Afro-Surrealism (Afrosurrealism) is an artistic and literary movement applying Surrealist techniques to the African diaspora experience, named by Amiri Baraka in 1974 and defined by D. Scot Miller's 2009 Afrosurreal Manifesto, distinct from Afrofuturism's future focus.
Afro–Latin Americans
Afro–Latin Americans (Afro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of mainly African ancestry, descended largely from enslaved Africans; over 130 million Afro-descendants live in the region, with Brazil the largest population, facing mestizaje-based exclusion and census undercounting.
Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) is a major language family of North Africa, East Africa, and the Middle East with six branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Omotic, and Semitic, about 400 languages, and the deepest written record of any family.
Afrobeat
Afrobeat is the 1970s Nigerian genre created by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and drummer Tony Allen, fusing highlife, jazz, funk, and Yoruba rhythms into long, horn-driven, political ensemble music; distinct from modern Afrobeats pop.