Central African may refer to:
- Something of, from, or related to Central Africa, a region in the center of Africa
- Something of, from, or related to the Central African Republic, a country in Central Africa
- A person from Central Africa, or of Central African descent. For information about the Central African people, see Demographics of the Central African Republic and Culture of the Central African Republic. For specific persons, see List of people from the Central African Republic.
- Note that there is no language called "Central African". See Languages of the Central African Republic.
- Something of, from, or related to the Central African Empire
Famous quotes containing the words central and/or african:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The African race evidently are made to excel in that department which lies between the sensuousness and the intellectual—what we call the elegant arts. These require rich and abundant animal nature, such as they possess; and if ever they become highly civilised, they will excel in music, dancing and elocution.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)