Phrase Hound found 38 phrases and 11 compound words that contain africa. The most common are listed below. Open africa in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 38
- South AfricaA country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of South Africa. Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
- North AfricaA geographic region comprising the northern part of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue.
- West AfricaA geographic region comprising the western portion of Africa, spanning sixteen countries.
- Central AfricaA core geographic region of Africa which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda, and often Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- East AfricaA geographic region encompassing the eastern part of Africa, generally stretching from Ethiopia and Eritrea in the north to Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the south.
- Republic of South AfricaOfficial name of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa.
- Southern AfricaA geographic region comprising the southern part of Africa; always including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, and sometimes also Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Union of South AfricaFormer official name of South Africa: a country in Southern Africa; used from 1910 to 1961, when the country was a Commonwealth dominion under nominal British sovereignty.
- Horn of AfricaA peninsula in East Africa, jutting into the Guardafui Channel.
- South West AfricaA former German colony (before World War I) and later a South African colony (from 1915 to 1990, illegally occupied after 1966 per United Nations stipulations) in Southern Africa; modern Namibia.
- The Call of South Africaa former national anthem of South Africa, created during the 1920s and used from the 1930s to the 1990s.
- black AfricaSynonym of sub-Saharan Africa: Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.
- Western AfricaWest Africa: A geographic region comprising the western portion of Africa, spanning sixteen countries.
- German East AfricaA former German colony in East Africa, spread mostly over present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
- sub-Saharan AfricaAfrica south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.
- Africa timeAlternative form of African time: A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Africans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not …
- French West AfricaA federation of former French colonies in West Africa existing from 1895 to 1958, consisting of Dahomey (Benin), French Guinea (Guinea), the French Sudan (Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso).
- Portuguese West AfricaA former colony of Portugal in Africa, now called Angola.
- British Central Africaa former British protectorate in the area of present-day Malawi, between 1891 and 1907.
- rape of AfricaEpithet for Scramble for Africa.
- French Equatorial AfricaA federation of former French colonies in Central Africa, stretching from the Sahara to the Congo River, comprising the following colonised countries (present names as independent republics in parentheses if different): Chad, French Congo …
- Italian East AfricaAn Italian colony created in 1936 with the merger of Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian Empire.
- Apartheid South AfricaDerogatory name for South Africa: a country in Southern Africa; used approximately from 1948 to 1991, when the apartheid policy was in force (some definitions may include pre-1948 and extend it to 1994).
- Out of AfricaA model of the geographic origin and early migration of hominins (Out of Africa I) and modern humans (Homo sapiens) (Out of Africa II) that posits ancient dispersal across the globe from an origin in southern Africa.
- National Party South AfricaA minor South African political party founded in 2008.
Compound words 11
- AfricologyAn interdisciplinary academic discipline that studies the history and culture of African people around the world.
- AfrocratAn employee or minister of the AU Commission or a similar Pan-African organization.
- EurafricaEurope and Africa, considered collectively.
- AfrabiaAfrica (or the parts of Africa with ties to Arabs) and Arabia, grouped together on the basis of historical ties.
- AfricatownA neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama.
- AfrihiliA constructed language designed to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa.
- SoufricaSouth Africa.
- AfricanistA specialist in African studies.
- AfricanishSomewhat African.
- AfricanisAn African breed of dog.