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Afrobeats
Afrobeats (also Afropop, Afrofusion) is the umbrella term for contemporary West African pop from Nigeria and Ghana, distinct from Fela Kuti's singular Afrobeat; it emerged in 2000s Lagos, broke globally in the 2010s, and generated about $100 million in 2023 with only 2% staying in Nigeria.
Afrocarpus
Afrocarpus is a small genus of African yellowwood conifers, evergreen dioecious trees of Afromontane forests from Ethiopia south to the Cape, with 5 to 7 species.
Afrocarpus falcatus
Afrocarpus falcatus (outeniqua yellowwood, formerly Podocarpus falcatus) is a 45 m African podocarp conifer of montane forests, a yellow timber tree rated Least Concern, planted widely as African fern pine.
Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism, also called Afrocentricity, is an academic approach placing Africa at the center of analysis for peoples of African descent, articulated by Molefi Kete Asante in the 1980s.
Afrocubanismo
Afrocubanismo was a Cuban artistic and intellectual movement of the late 1920s and 1930s that accepted Afro-Cuban culture as national expression, shaping music, poetry, and painting.
Afrocubism
AfroCubism is a group of Malian and Cuban musicians assembled by producer Nick Gold, whose self-titled 2010 album was nominated for a Grammy; it revives the 1996 idea that became Buena Vista Social Club.
Afroditi Latinopoulou
Afroditi Latinopoulou (Αφροδίτη Λατινοπούλου, born 1991), Greek founder-leader of the party Foni Logikis (Voice of Reason), MEP since 2024 with Patriots for Europe; immunity waived by the European Parliament on 15 September 2026.
Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a cultural and intellectual movement in which artists, writers, and musicians of the African diaspora imagine Black futures and alternative histories through science fiction, fantasy, and technology.
Afrojack
Afrojack (Nick Leonardus van de Wall) is a Dutch big room/house DJ and producer from Spijkenisse, Grammy winner for Madonna's 'Revolver' remix and 'Look At Me Now', known for 'Take Over Control', 'Titanium', and his Wall Recordings label.
Afroman
Afroman, stage name of Joseph Edgar Foreman (born 1974), American comedic rapper behind the Grammy-nominated 2000 hit "Because I Got High" and the Lemon Pound Cake album, who won a 2026 defamation trial brought by Ohio deputies over raid-footage music videos.
Afroreggae
Afroreggae (Grupo Cultural AfroReggae) is a Brazilian cultural organization and fusion band founded in 1993 in Rio de Janeiro by José Júnior to use culture for social reconstruction.
Afroswing
Afroswing, also called afrobashment, is a British fusion genre from mid-2010s London blending Afrobeats, dancehall, UK rap, grime and R&B; defined by J Hus, Jae5 and Kojo Funds, peaking 2016-2019 at 95-110 BPM.
Afrotheria
Afrotheria, the African beasts, is a placental mammal clade uniting elephants, sea cows, hyraxes, aardvark, sengis, golden moles, and tenrecs, recognized from DNA in the mid-1990s and likely sister to Xenarthra as Atlantogenata.
Afroto
Afroto (أفروتو) is the stage name of Egyptian rapper and songwriter Ahmed Mohamed Abdelmageed, who grew up in Alexandria and broke through with the 2020 single 'Segara'.
Afrotropical Diptera fauna
The Afrotropical Diptera fauna is the set of fly species of sub-Saharan Africa, southern Arabia, and associated islands, with about 19,590 known species in 108 families.
Afsana
Afsana (افسانہ) is the Urdu short story, a prose narrative shorter than a novel concentrating on a single incident, character, or mood; established by Premchand over a century ago.
Afsaneh
Afsaneh (افسانه, "Legend") is a long Persian poem by Nima Yushij, the father of modern Persian poetry. It founded the foundational She'r-e No movement in 1922.
Afshan Azad
Afshan Azad, born 1988 in Manchester to a Bangladeshi family, is a British actress known for playing Padma Patil in the five Harry Potter films (2005–2011) and later for media and advocacy work.
Afshar experiment
The Afshar experiment, also called the Afshar paradox, is a modified double-slit optics experiment by Shahriar S. Afshar, whose 2004 claim of violating complementarity was largely rejected.
Afsharid coinage (Naderi ashrafi and rupee)
Afsharid coinage (سکههای نادری) is the gold and silver money issued in the name of Nader Shah Afshar and his successors from 1736, including the Naderi ashrafi and rupee.
Afsharid dynasty
The Afsharid dynasty (افشاریان) was a Turkmen Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah in 1736, ruling from Iraq to India until the Qajars annexed it in 1796.
Afshin Yadollahi
Afshin Yadollahi (افشین یداللهی) was an Iranian songwriter, poet, and neuropsychiatrist, born in Isfahan, known for television title songs like Shab-e Dahom, who died in 2017.
Afşin-Elbistan Coal Mines
The Afşin-Elbistan coal mines are open-pit lignite mines in Kahramanmaraş Province, southeastern Turkey, holding about 24 percent of the country's lignite reserves and feeding two thermal power plants.
Afşin-Elbistan power stations
The Afşin-Elbistan power stations are two adjacent lignite-fired plants in Kahramanmaraş Province, southeastern Türkiye, the country's largest operating coal-fired complex: plant A (1,355 MW) opened in 1984, and plant B (1,440 MW) in 2006.
Afsluitdijk
The Afsluitdijk, or Enclosure Dike, is a 32 km dam in the Netherlands separating the Wadden Sea from the IJsselmeer, built between 1927 and 1932.
Afsos
Afsos (अफ़सोस, "regret") is a 2020 Hindi black comedy miniseries on Amazon Prime Video, created by Anirban Dasgupta and Dibya Chatterjee, directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, about a suicidal writer who hires his own killer amid an immortality-elixir plot.
Aftab Ahmed Khan (आफ़ताब अहमद ख़ान)
Aftab Ahmed Khan (आफ़ताब अहमद ख़ान), Maharashtra IPS officer (1963 batch), led the 1991 Lokhandwala Complex encounter killing gangster Maya Dolas and founded Mumbai's Anti Terrorism Squad in 1990; died January 2022, age 81.
Aftab Pureval
Aftab Pureval is an American Democratic politician serving as the 70th Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, since 2022, the city's first Asian-American mayor, after serving as Hamilton County Clerk of Courts.
Aftab Shivdasani (आफ़ताब शिवदासानी)
Aftab Shivdasani (आफ़ताब शिवदासानी), born 1978 in Mumbai, is an Indian actor and producer: a Farex-ad baby model, child actor in Mr India and Shahenshah, and lead debut in Mast (1999), known for the Masti comedy franchise and South Indian films.
After (2019 film)
After (2019) is a romantic drama directed by Jenny Gage, adapted from Anna Todd's Wattpad One Direction fan fiction novel, starring Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Tessa and Hardin; it grossed $69.5 million worldwide and spawned a five-film franchise.