How to Use African in a Sentence

African

1 of 2 noun

• And right in the middle of it, this: The African Meeting House.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• They were dubbed the Ten Percenters to match the population of African Americans at the time.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the bottom picture, a number of African Americans are located on and around a car.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
• The 28-year-old won the African Women’s Footballer of the Year award five times in eight years and is widely considered the best female soccer player on the continent right now.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 7 July 2023
• Derik du Plessis, a 44-year-old South African who has lived in Hualien for 17 years, described chaos and panic on the streets after the earthquake as people rushed to pick up their children and check on their houses.
  — John Yoon, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• The African Union and the United Nations have also issued statements condemning the apparent coup.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Life expectancy for Black/African Americans is four years lower than that of white Americans.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 July 2023
• The situation in Niger was also the subject of a meeting that convened representatives of the African Union on Monday.
  — Rick Noack, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Carbone proposed the sign project and, together with a plan to make improvements to the African American Heritage Trail, it was approved by residents.
  — Michael Casey, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
• The case set important precedent for due process protections for African Americans.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The largest of the zebra species, Grevy’s zebras have experienced a 54% population decline over the past three decades, according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
  — Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 26 Aug. 2023
• The ruling African National Congress has long supported the Palestinians' quest for their own state, linking it to its own anti-apartheid battle.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• Fashion at these institutions is a breeding ground for what’s to come trend-wise, largely due to the fact that African Americans are an integral part of the fashion industry.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Nov. 2023
• As with the best satire, the focus is not on believable plot but rather how the story reveals the ills of society, in this case how Hollywood and television have mistreated African Americans over the decades.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• As in any compilation, the results are varied, but overall, African Folktales, Reimagined is a fresh and inspiring look at the future of African storytelling.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• All show contemporary young Black men and women — some African, some American — in poses that suggest death but also sleep, grief, ecstasy.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Gold teeth have become synonymous with rap culture, just as gold caps have become synonymous with the captivating allure of the fabulous Black African Princesses.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 15 Aug. 2023
• Before Emancipation, enslaved African Americans worked on the land.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• Later, in 1951, Rucker founded Georgia's first veterans' night school for African Americans.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2024
• After the Civil War, did African Americans get citizenship?
  — Carole Burns, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• Like many African Americans, her aunt had internalized the message that life is safest for Black people who live quietly and humbly, without attracting attention or challenging the ways white people choose to think about the past.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Johnson plans initially to have exhibits on military history and notable African Americans from the Joliet area.
  — Carol Flynn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
• Weston also subsequently founded the African Jazz Festival in the ‘70s.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2024
• Bates College, renamed in honor of its industrialist patron, was an early hotbed of abolitionism and one of the first schools to allow women and African Americans to study alongside white men.
  — Alex Seitz-Wald, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• Lagging achievement for African Americans and other racial minorities, some argued privately, should not be a matter of public concern.
  — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• Their complexions, like those of African Americans, range from café au lait to cinnamon to maple to mahogany, which can be a focus of discrimination in a nation where the color of one’s skin can still adversely affect your career or your life.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
• That’s especially true for African Americans descended from the enslaved, whose link to their ancestral past was so violently shattered.
  — Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• Latimer saw himself as an exemplar of what succeeding generations of African Americans could aspire to.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2023
• Through his recent release, Simply West African, Thiam highlights the rich diversity of this food culture, via both traditional and modern takes on celebrated recipes.
  — Kristin Braswell, Essence, 16 Nov. 2023
• Statistically, African Americans own less than one percent of craft breweries in the United States, so this is an incredible accomplishment.
  — Ronny Maye, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023

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African

2 of 2 adjective

• Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
• Both of my parents are South African and moved to England, where I was born.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2023
• What’s your relationship with some of the new African artists?
  — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
• The 35-year-old South African rapper was shot and killed earlier this year.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
• This is Blinken’s fourth African trip of the Biden presidency.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• The 70-mile race is done on a tandem bike throughout the South African capital.
  — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
• The first, held last October, was attended by 45 African heads of state.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Revelers dance and sweat on the asphalt to Black house music mixed with African and Afro-Latino rhythms.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
  — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• Throughout the film, Robinson’s choreography nods to African dance, hip-hop and jazz.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
• Scotch bonnet chiles can be found at many African and Caribbean grocery stores.
  — Lelani Lewis, Saveur, 29 Feb. 2024
• Bennett is quick to clarify Okàn is not an African restaurant.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
• There are massive African communities in these places, so why not?
  — Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• The statement did not say exactly when the couple were expected to arrive in the African nation.
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2024
• The experience was a wake-up call, and James promptly shed his African American roots.
  — Angela Aleiss, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• The brand sells a collection of modern and boho-style African designer rugs, which are handmade by weavers in Egypt or Nepal.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2023
• In 2020, five African gray parrots at Lincolnshire Wildlife Centre made headlines for their potty mouths.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• Dozens of civilians were killed during anti-government protests in the East African country in July this year.
  — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• The world needs the amazing richness and beauty of our traditional African music and our culture.
  — Angélique Kidjo, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
• The 64 refers to the number of boys from his almost entirely African American school who died in a war many of them saw as irrelevant to their lives.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• There were two African American men and one woman from Puerto Rico.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Du Bois became the first African American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard in 1895.
  — Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• The females are famously protective of their young, and the species as a whole is widely regarded as the most dangerous of all the large African megafauna.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• The first step arrived this year, when the category of best African music performance was unveiled.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• They also were sent to Syria and several African countries since Prigozhin created the private army in 2014.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2023
• Its aim is to help people of African descent recover from the effects of racial trauma and to make space in the wellness industry for this kind of healing practice.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Health, 11 Mar. 2024
• Many of the drivers in Minneapolis are African immigrants who have been pushing for higher wages at the state and city levels since 2022.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024
• Renowned South African playwright, producer and composer Mbongeni Ngema has died in a car crash at the age of 68, his family said.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• The means are musical and kinesthetic, an irresistible blend of African and American modern dance that lifts the spirit.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• The dancing style is said to have come from African sailors who reached the Maldives many centuries ago, and is typically performed at special occasions and celebrations.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024