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Afonso Alves Afonso Alves Martins Jr, Afonso [ɐ'fõsu 'ɑuvɨʃ] (born January 30, 1981) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for Dutch side SC Heerenveen. Afonso started his career with Brazilian side Atlético Mineiro.
Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena (Santa Bárbara, November 30, 1847 – Rio de Janeiro, June 14, 1909) was a Brazilian politician, president between 1906 and 1909. Before his political career, Pena was a lawyer, jurist and member of the Brazilian Supreme Court.
Afonso Busa Metan Afonso Busa Metan is a poet and author of short stories from East Timor. He has his writing scattered around in newspapers and bulletins in the countries of the East Timorese diaspora and in East Timor and he also wrote one book, named Cartas da terra dos malais.
Afonso Claudio Afonso Cláudio is the name of a municipality and its capital in east central Espírito Santo, Brazil, founded in 1963. The town, at a height of 610m above sea level, has a population of approximately 9,957 and an area of 361.
Afonso de Albuquerque Afonso de Albuquerque, Afonso d'Albuquerque or Alfonso de Albuquerque (pron. IPA []) (1453 - December 16, 1515) was a Portuguese naval general whose activities helped establish the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian sea.
Afonso I of Portugal Afonso I, King of Portugal (English Alphonzo or Alphonse), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (pron. IPA //), or also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), (GuimarĂŁes, 1109?
Afonso IV of Portugal Afonso IV, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA []; English Alphonzo), or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin), (February 8 1291 – May 28 1357), known as the Brave (Port.
Afonso Van-Dunem Afonso Van-Dunem "MBinda" (born 7 September 1941 in Luanda) is a former Angolan politician. Van-Dunem worked as the MPLA-workers party representative in Zambia and Tanzania from 1970–1972, as well as being elected to the Central Committee of the MPLA from 1976 onwards.
Afonso VI of Portugal Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA []; English Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Old Portuguese), (August 21,1643–September 12, 1683) was the twenty-second (or twenty-third according to some historians) King of Portugal and Algarves, the second of the House of Braganza, known as the Victorious (Port.
Afonso, Crown Prince of Portugal Prince Afonso of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA []; English: Alphonzo) was born in May 18 1475 in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in a horse riding accident in the margins of the Tagus river on July 13 1491, 16 years old.
Afra Airlines Afra Airlines was an airline established in Accra in Ghana in 2003. It was formed as a new consumer airline to be focused on providing efficient, low-cost air services to and from destinations within Ghana, Africa, Europe and North America.
Afra Mall Afra Mall (Arabic: مركز عفراء التجاري translated as Afra Shopping Centre) is the first shopping mall in Sudan located in Khartoum. Opened on February 21, 2004, the mall has an area of 30,000 m² with an indoor and outdoor parking facility, as well as an outdoor children playground.
Afram River The Afram River is a 100km river in Ghana. Prior to the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s, the Afram was a principal tributary of the Volta River and today is an equally important tributary of Lake Volta.
Aframomum melegueta The term Grains of Paradise refers to a West African spice obtained from the plant Aframomum melegueta (Ginger family, Zingiberaceae) which gives pungent, peppery flavor. It is also known as Guinea pepper, Melegueta pepper, alligator pepper and Guinea grains.
Afrancesado Afrancesado (pl. afrancesados; "Francophiles" or "turned-French", "Francisized") was the term used to denote Spanish and Portuguese partisans of Enlightenment ideas, Liberalism, or the French Revolution, who were supporters of the French occupation of Iberia and of the First French Empire.
Afrasiab Afrasiab (afrāsiyāb) (; Avestan Fraŋrasyan; Pahlavi Frāsiyāv, Frāsiyāk and Freangrāsyāk, was the name of mythical king and hero of Turan and archenemy of Iran. Also the name of city known as ; ), old Samarkand in modern Uzbekistan.
Afrasiab Khattak Afrasiab Khattak (Urdu: افراسیاب خٹک ) is a former student leader, Pakistani politician, writer and prominent human rights activist. He has been the president of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), which is believed to be the largest human rights organisation in the
Afrasiabi Afrasiabi is a surname that literally means the people of Afrasiab, the oldest part of the city of Samakand in today's Uzbekistan. It is also literally translated into related to Afrasiab, the legendary king of Persian epic Shahnama Ferdowsi or the Book of Kings from the 10th century AD.
Africa (Petrarch) Africa is an epic poem in Latin hexameters by the 14th century Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca). The first sections of Africa were written in the valley of Vaucluse after Petrarch's first visit to Rome in 1337.
Africa (song) "Africa" is a song by '80s rock band Toto about a young girl's mystical journey through Africa. The song was included on their 1982 album Toto IV, and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1983.
Africa Addio Africa Addio is an Italian movie documentary made in 1966 about the end of the colonial era in Africa. The film was released under the names "Africa Blood and Guts" in the USA and "Farewell Africa" in the UK.
Africa Alphabet The Africa Alphabet was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (later the IAI) in London.
Africa Cup The Africa Cup is an annual rugby union tournament involving African nations, organised by the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR). The tournament was first held in 2000, and has since been contested on an annual basis.
Africa Day Africa Day is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was in July 2002 succeeded by the present African Union, while amalgamating with the African Economic Community (AEC), but kept the date and name of Africa Day.
Africa Hinterland Africa Hinterland was an overland travel company set up in the UK in the early 80s to smuggle arms into South Africa for the military struggle against the apartheid system. It was founded by exiled members of the African National Congress and made over 40 trips into South Africa, carrying up to a ton of weapons on each trip hidden in secret compartments welded under the truck seats.
Africa Independent Television Africa Independent Television is a Nigerian satellite television station, available throughout Africa, and via GlobeCast World TV to North America. Some of its programming is also available in the United Kingdom through BEN Television.
Africa Inland Mission Africa Inland Mission (AIM) is a nondenominational Christian mission organisation focusing on Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean. AIM was founded in 1895 by Peter Cameron Scott together with Arthur Pierson and Charles Hurlburt, and as of 2004 has over 850 missionaries.
Africa Liberal Network The Africa Liberal Network (ALN) is an organization composed of 16 political parties from 14 African nations, and is an associated organisation of Liberal International, the political family to which Liberal Democratic parties belong. The ALN serves to promote liberal democratic objectives and principles throughout the African continent.
Africa Mercy Africa Mercy is part of a fleet of ships from Mercy Ships, a fleet of hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. The Africa Mercy has been commissioned in Newcastle, England in April 2006 and will make its way to Liberia for its first mission trip.
Africa Muslim Party The Africa Muslim Party is a South African Muslim political party. It was founded in 1994, with Gulam Sabdia as Chairman and Imtiaz Suleman as national leader, and competed in the 1994 elections with few (around 78,000) votes to account for (it had put up 60 candidates for the National Assembly and 25 for the Council of Provinces).
Africa Oyé Africa Oyé is an annual music festival in Liverpool, England. It is held in Sefton Park and showcases up-and-coming African and Caribbean artists, as well as presenting already famous artists, such as Bonga and Luciano.
Africa Rice Center Formerly known as the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), the Africa Rice Center is an autonomous intergovernmental research association that seeks to alleviate poverty and enhance food security in Africa by increasing the productivity and profitability of rice crops.
Africa Screams Africa Screams is a 1949 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is notable for having two members of the Three Stooges (Shemp Howard and Joe Besser) working together in a non-Stooge vehicle.
Africa Source Africa Source is the name for a series of events, two of which have been held so far, in 2004 and 2006, at Namibia and Uganda respectively. These are held to promote the use of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) among non-profit and non-governmental organisations.
Africa Volleyball Championship The African Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams, currently held biannually and organized by the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball, the Africa volleyball federation. There are both men's and women's competitions.
Africa Volleyball Championship U21 The African Volleyball Championship U21 is a sport competition for national teams with players under 21 years, currently held biannually and organized by the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball, the Africa volleyball federation.
Africa's Next Supermodel Africas Next SuperModel is a reality television show organized by Beauties of Africa Inc which selects 16 Black and Beautiful; and African Models regardless of where they live and national origins, pits them against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win a modeling contract.
African aesthetic While the African continent is vast and its peoples diverse, certain standards of beauty in artistic expression and physical appearance, of propriety of comportment and demeanor are held in common among various indigenous African societies and are not exclusive to any one tribe or society . Taken collectively, these values and standards have been characterised as comprising a generally accepted African aesthetic.
African and Native American interaction The earliest recorded example of African slaves escaping from European colonists and being absorbed by American Indians occurred as far back as 1526. In June of that year, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon established a Spanish colony near the mouth of the Pee Dee River in what is now eastern South Carolina.
African angelshark The African angelshark, Squatina africana, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found in the tropical and warm temperate waters of the western Indian Ocean from Tanzania to the eastern Cape coast of South Africa between latitudes 4° S and 32° S, at depths down to 500 m. Its length is up to 1.
African archaeology The continent of Africa has the longest record of human activity of any part of the world and along with its geographical extent, it contains an enormous archaeological resource. Scholars have studied Egyptology for centuries but archaeologists have only paid serious attention to the rest of the continent in more recent times.
African armyworm The African armyworm (AAW), Spodoptera exempta (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), also called okalombo or Kommandowurm or nutgrass armyworm, is an African moth. It is a very deleterious pest, capable of destroying entire crops in a matter of weeks.
African Academy of Languages The African Academy of Languages (Fr.: Académie Africaine des Langues, or ACALAN) is a Pan-African organization founded in 2001 by Mali's then-president Alpha Oumar Konaré, under the auspices of the African Union, for the harmonization of Africa's many spoken languages.
African Academy of Sciences The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is an Africa-wide scientists organisation. It serves firstly to honour African scientists who have become internationally renowned through their efforts in their respective fields, and secondly to encourage the development of the research and technology base throughout Africa.
African American An African American (also Afro-American and black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. Many African Americans possess European, Native American and, to a lesser degree, Asian ancestry as well.
African American art African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from basketweaving, pottery and quilting to woodcarving and painting.
African American contemporary issues African American contemporary issues are a group of social, political, and business issues that are of interest and concern to African Americans because these issues and the state of their resolution directly affect the quality of life of African Americans. Historically African Americans have faced discrimination in varied forms to a much greater extent than other ethnic groups.
African American culture African American culture is both part of, and distinct from American culture. From their earliest presence in North America, Africans and African Americans have contributed literature, art, agricultural skills, foods, clothing styles, music, and language to American culture.
African American Environmentalist Association The African American Environmentalist Association is a private, public interest group focusing on environmental issues. Its stated aims include protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, promoting the efficient use of natural resources and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement.
African American history African American history is the history of an ethnic group in the United States also known as Black Americans. The majority of African-Americans are the descendants of enslaved Africans transported from West and Central Africa to the States during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
African American leftism African Americans have had a tremendous impact on left-wing politics in the United States. From liberalism to progressivism, from communism to socialism, to anarchism, African Americans have been a major part of leftist struggles throughout U.
African American literature African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reached early high points with slave narratives and the Harlem Renaissance, and continues today with authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Walter Mosley being ranked among the top writers in the United States.
African American music African American music (also called black music, formerly known as race music) is an umbrella term given to a range of musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States. They were originally brought to North America to work as slaves in cotton plantations, bringing with them typically polyphonic songs from hundreds of ethnic groups across West and Sub-Saharan Africa.
African American Museum and Library at Oakland The African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO) is a museum and non-circulating library dedicated to preserving the history of African Americans in California. It contains an extensive archival collection of such artifacts as diaries, correspondence, photos, and periodicals.
African American Museum in Philadelphia The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) opened in 1976 in celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was the first major museum in the country devoted specifically to African American history and traditions under the direction of Charles H.
African American Musical Theater Most believe that the history of black musical theatre begins with loud- laffin' negros who donned blackface makeup and baggy clothes and shuffled around stage eatin' chicken n watermelon. Many forget Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk and A Trip to Coontown, in 1898 and think that the history of black musical theater starts with the ragtime pianist and composer Eubie Blake and his popular 1920s show, Shuffle Along, which attests to early black influence in American musical theater.
African American Press The African American Press also known as The Black Press was established on March 16, 1827 with the first publication of the Freedom’s Journal. It is half the age of the white press which began 137 years earlier.
African American Review The African American Review is a quarterly journal and the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. The journal promotes exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture.
African American studies African American studies, or Black studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of the history, culture, and politics of African Americans. Taken broadly, the field studies not only the cultures of people of African descent in the United States, but the cultures of the entire African diaspora, from the British Isles to the Caribbean.
African American Theme House The African American Theme House is a student housing cooperative in Berkeley, California that is part of the University Students Cooperative Association. The house is located close to the University of California at Berkeley near Memorial Stadium and the International House.
African American vernacular dance African American vernacular dances are those dances which have developed within African American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in dance studios, schools or companies. African American vernacular dances are usually centered on social dance practice, though performance dance and concert dance often supply complementary aspects to social dancing.
African American Vernacular English African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called African American English, Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), Black Vernacular English (BVE), or (usually pejoratively) "Jive", is a type variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of the American English language. It is known colloquially as Ebonics (a portmanteau of "ebony" and "phonics").
African Americans in the United States Congress Since 1868, 118 African Americans have served in the United States Congress. This figure includes one member who was elected but never seated and five non-voting members of the House of Representatives who represented the District of Columbia and the U.
African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. The African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. is the oldest continuously existing Baptist organization in the Republic of Malawi, with roots in the earliest mission work of Joseph Booth (1892) and is a successor to the Providence Baptist Mission (1900).
African Black Duck The African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) is a species of duck of the genus Anas. It is genetically closest to the mallard group (Johnson & Sorenson, 1999), but shows some peculiarities in its behavior (Johnson et al.
African Black Oystercatcher The African Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus moquini, is a large wader which is a resident breeder on the rocky coasts and islands of southern Africa. This oystercatcher has a population of less than 5,000 adults.
African Blackwood African Blackwood or Mpingo (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea and south to the Transvaal in South Africa.
African Blue basil African Blue basil is one of the most cold-tolerant breeds of basil, leading to it being called a perennial, though in fact all basils are perennial as long as the weather is warm year-round. Unfortunately, it's also a sterile hybrid of two other breeds of basil, unable to produce seeds of its own.
African Brush-tailed Porcupine The African Brush-Tailed Porcupine (Atherurus africanus) is a species of rat-like Old World porcupine called "brush-tailed porcupines". The brush-tailed porcupines live in forests, usually at high elevations.
African Burial Ground National Monument African Burial Ground National Monument at Duane and Elk Streets in Lower Manhattan (New York City) preserves a site containing the remains of over 400 Africans, buried during the 17th and 18th-centuries. The remains were found during the construction of the Foley Square Federal office building in 1991.
African cinema The term African cinema usually refers to the film production in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa following formal independence, which for many countries happened in the 1960s. Some of the countries which belong geographically to Africa (Egypt, for example) had developed a national film industry much earlier.
African currency African currency was originally formed from basic items, materials, animals and even people available in the locality to create a medium of exchange. This started to change from the seventeenth century onwards (though there is still some slavery), as European colonial powers introduced their own monetary systems into the countries they administered.
African Century The African Century is a term that has a variety of meanings. First, the term expresses the belief that the 21st century will bring peace, prosperity and cultural revival to the African continent, or is used to draw attention to the need of such an evolution.
African Clawless Otter The African Clawless Otter, Aonyx capensis, also known as the Cape Clawless Otter or Groot otter, is the second largest freshwater species of otter. African Clawless Otters are found near permanent bodies of water in savannah and lowland forest areas.
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) is a quasi-judicial body tasked with promoting and protecting human rights and collective (peoples') rights throughout the African continent as well as interpreting the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and considering individual complaints of violations of the Charter.
African Conservation Foundation The African Conservation Foundation is working towards the protection and conservation of Africa's endangered wildlife and their habitats. Founded in 1999, ACF fills a unique niche by creating an Africa-wide network for information exchange and capacity building of conservation efforts in the region.
African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance The African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program, formerly the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), is a United States program to train military trainers and equip African national militaries to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief.
African Court of Justice The African Court of Justice will at some point in the future be merged with the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and be the African Union's legal organ. The seat of the Court will be situated in Eastern Africa.
African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights is a regional court that rules on African Union states' compliance with the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. It is being merged with the African Court of Justice following a decision by AU member states at a June 2004 African Union Summit.
African Cup Winners' Cup The African Cup Winners' Cup is a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederation Cup. It was a competition between the winning clubs of national competitions in CAF-affiliated nations.
African diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of black Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. Much of the African diaspora is descended from people sold into slavery during the transatlantic slave trade, with the largest population living in Brazil (see Afro-Brazilian).
African Democratic Rally The African Democratic Rally (French: Rassemblement Démocratique Africain) was a political party in French West Africa, led by Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Founded in Bamako in 1946, the RDA quickly became one of the most important forces for independence in the region.
African Democratic Rally (Burkina) The African Democratic Rally (Rassemblement DĂ©mocratique Africain) is a political party in Burkina Faso. It was originally known as the Voltaic Democratic Union-African Democratic Rally (UDV-RDA) and was formed in 1957 as the Voltaic section of the African Democratic Rally (RDA).
African Development Bank The African Development Bank (ADB) is a development bank established in 1964 with the intention of promoting economic and social development in Africa. It is a conglomeration of the African Development Bank (ADB), the African Development Fund (ADF), and the Nigeria Trust Fund (NTF).
African Development Foundation The African Development Foundation (ADF) is an independent United States Government agency and corporation that provides African-owned small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa with investment capital to expand their production; develop new, high-value products; achieve profitability and sustainability; and trade in the global marketplace. Created by an Act of Congress in 1980, ADF began program operations in 1984.
African Diamond Producers Association African Countries Diamond Producers Association (ADPA) is an international organization in Africa designed to strengthen influence on the world diamond market as well as harmonize legislation and encouraging foreign investment in the industry. One of its main concerns is the continued illegal sales of blood diamonds.
African elephant African elephants are the two species of elephants in the genus Loxodonta, one of the two existing genera in Elephantidae. Although it is commonly believed that the genus was named by Georges Cuvier in 1825, Cuvier spelled it Loxodonte.
African Easterly Jet The African easterly jet is a region of the lower troposphere over West Africa where the seasonal mean wind speed is maximum and easterly. The jet develops because heating of the West African land mass during the Northern Hemisphere summer creates a surface temperature and moisture gradient from the Gulf of Guinea and the Sahara, and the atmosphere responds by generating vertical wind shear to maintain thermal wind balance.
African Filipino African-Filipino or Afro-Filipino is an umbrella term for Philippine citizens of African ancestry, the overwhelming majority being Filipino mulattos partly of African-American descent, mostly descending from African American army men. Others are offspring of bwetween Filipinos and West Africans, Kenyans or Afro-Europeans.
African Film and Television Association The African Film and Television Association is an international group that advocates for organizations and persons involved in, or concerned about, fair and positive representation of Africans in the film and television industries. AFTA was founded in September 2006, at Ashcroft, in Canada.
African Finfoot The African Finfoot, (Podica senegalensis), is an aquatic bird from the rivers and lakes of western, central and southern Africa. Like the rest of the family, the Masked Finfoot and the Sungrebe, the relationship to other birds is poorly understood.
African Foam-nest Tree Frog The African Foam-nest Tree Frog (Chiromantis rufescens) is a frog that lives in the tropical rainforests of Central Africa. Its upper body is a brownish color, tinged rust, and it has small dark spots around its head and pelvis.
African Footballer of the Year The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African football (soccer) player each year, has been confered by the Confederation of African Football since 1992. An earlier African Footballer of the Year award was given out between 1970 and 1992 by France Football magazine.
African Forest Elephant The African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) was until recently considered a subspecies of the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana); however, DNA testing has now shown that there are in fact three extant elephant species: the two African types, formerly considered to be different populations of a single species, the African Elephant, and the South Asian species known as the Indian or Asian Elephant. The North African elephant of Hannibal fame was a now-extinct fourth species or a subspecies of the Forest Elephant (Loxodonta (africana) pharaoensis); it disappeared around the 1st or 2nd century CE.
African Great Lakes The Great Lakes of Africa are a series of lakes in and around the Great Rift Valley. They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area, and Lake Tanganyika, the world's second largest in terms of volume as well as the second deepest.
African Grove The African Grove was a theater founded and operated by African Americans in New York City in 1821, a full six years before enslavement of blacks was outlawed in New York state. Among its stars was Ira Aldridge.
African Guitar Summit African Guitar Summit is a group of Canadian guitar players, all of African origin. Assembled together for three days in Toronto, under the auspices of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation they produced a self-titled album which was released in November 2004.
African Handball Nations Championship The African Handball Nations Championship is the official competition for senior men's national handball teams of Africa, and takes place every two years. In addition to crowning the African champions, the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship.
African characters in comics Characters native to the African continent have been depicted in comics since the beginnings of the modern comic strip. Initially, such early 20th-century newspaper comics as Winsor McCay's Little Nemo depicted the racist stereotype of a spear-carrying cannibal, a comedic convention of the time.
African Championships in Athletics The African Championships in Athletics is a continental athletics event organized by the Confederation of African Athletics. It is generally organised biennually, every other event is held same year as the Summer Olympics.

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