African
African people are natives or inhabitants of Africa and people of African descent.
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... Party by then was chiefly supported by African Americans ... with passage of a new constitution in 1901 that restricted suffrage and effectively disfranchised African Americans ... The damage to the African-American community was severe and pervasive, as nearly all its eligible citizens lost the ability to vote ...
... A326G (rs642742) has been positively associated with variations of skin color in African-Americans of mixed West African and European descent and is estimated to account for 15–20% of the melanin ... of European and Asian samples, compared with less than 10% in African samples ...
... A guerilla war subsequently ensued when Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), supported ... In March 1978, Smith reached an accord with three African leaders, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who offered to leave the white population comfortably entrenched in exchange for the ... April 1979, concluding with the United African National Council (UANC) carrying a majority of parliamentary seats ...
... Regional power and by attachment to several fundamental principles African unity and independence Capability to exercise hegemonic influence in the region peaceful settlement of ... In carrying out these principles, Nigeria participates in the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now known as the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Non-Aligned Movement ...
... Main article African traditional religions West Africa Akan mythology Ashanti mythology (Ghana) Dahomey (Fon) mythology Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon) Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon) Isoko mythology (Nigeria ...
Famous quotes containing the word african:
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)
“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)