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African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that seeks to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent.
African Christian Democratic Party The African Christian Democratic Party is a political party in South Africa . It was founded in 1993 and claims to represent "Bible believing Christians" and "those who have a high regard for moral values".
African immigration to Puerto Rico Unlike other immigrations, the majority of the Africans who immigrated to Puerto Rico did so as a result of the slave trade. The Africans in Puerto Rico came from various points of Africa and were forced to build fortifications and work the fields.
African independence movements The African Independence Movements took place in the 1960s, when a wave of struggles for independence in African colonies was witnessed. These independence movements took place in countries like Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and South Africa.
African iron overload African iron overload, formerly known as Bantu siderosis, is an iron overload disorder first observed among people of African descent in Southern Africa. Originally, this was blamed on ungalvanised barrels used to store home-made beer, which led to increased oxidation and increased iron levels in the beer.
African Initiated Church An African Initiated Church is a Christian denomination started in Africa, by Africans, and not by missionaries from another continent. There is a group of overlapping terms for such denominations: African Initiated Churches, African Independent Churches, African Indigenous Churches and African Instituted Churches.
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is an educational institute in Muizenberg, South Africa, established in 2003. Students from all over Africa come to Muizenberg to complete a postgraduate diploma.
African Institute of Science and Technology The African Institute of Science and Technology (AIST) is a university system concept developed by the Nelson Mandela Institution aimed toward bringing the highest level of technical learning facilities to the continent of Africa. AIST represents a global effort to foster Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth and development through the promotion of excellence in science and engineering and their applications.
African Jazz Grand Kalle & l'African Jazz was perhaps the first full-time, professional band in what was then called Belgian Congo, now Democratic Republic of the Congo). It was founded by Joseph Kabasele Tshamala, popularly know as Grand Kalle.
African lanternshark The African lanternshark, Etmopterus polli, is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the eastern Atlantic from Guinea to Côte d'Ivoire, and from Nigeria to Angola, between latitudes 12° N and 18° S, at depths of between 300 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 30 cm.
African Liberation Forces of Mauritania The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (French: Forces de Libération Africaines de Mauritanie, or FLAM) is a representative organization for the Black African minority in Arab- and Berber-dominated Mauritania, founded in 1983 as tensions had increased between the two ethnicities. Tensions between the group and the Sid'Ahmed Taya government increased to a peak in April 1989, when a border dispute with southern neighbor Senegal broke out into violence between the two ethnicities.
African Long-eared Owl The African Long-eared Owl, Asio abyssinicus is a medium-sized owl with yellow eyes, a black bill and gray eyebrows. It is similar in appearance to the Long-eared Owl, Asio otus, but is overall darker, and their ranges do not overlap.
African Manatee The African Manatee (Trichechus senegalensis) is a species of manatee, and is the least studied of the four species of sirenians. Photos of African Manatees are very rare; although very little is known about this species, scientists think they are similar to the West Indian Manatees.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or AME Zion Church, was officially formed in 1821, but operated for a number years before then. (In 1796 Peter Williams forms the basic structure of the AME Zion Church in New York and in 1801 Zion Chapel began.
African Military Cup The African Military Cup is a football competition for national military teams in Africa. It is organized by OSMA (Organisation du Sport Militaire en Afrique), a branch of the International Military Sports Council.
African Monetary Fund The Africa Monetary Fund will be an African Union financial institution, though in time it's responsibilities will be transferred to the African Central Bank.This institution is one of the three financial institutions of the futur African Union.
African Movement of Working Children and Youth African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) is a labour organization that tries to support the rights of African child workers. AMWCY was founded 1994 in Dakar, Senegal and in a meeting in CĂ´te d'Ivoire.
African Muslim Agency The African Muslim Agency is a primarily Kuwait-sponsored aid and Dawah organization based in Luanda, Angola. The agency, however, has established itself in much of Africa, including Sierra Leone, Mali, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Angola, the Gambia and particularly South Africa.
African nationalism African nationalism is the nationalist political movement for one united Africa, or the lesser goal of the recognition of African tribes by establishing their own state and preservation of their native cultures. Organizations like the Aborigines' Rights Protection Society in the Gold Coast (founded 1897, the African National Congress in South Africa (1912) and the National Congress of West Africa (1920).
African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party, and has been South Africa's governing party supported by a tripartite alliance between itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. Originally called the South African Native National Congress until 1923, it was founded to increase the rights of the South African black population, on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein, and counted John Dube (its first president) and poet and author Sol Plaatje among its founding members.
African National Congress Youth League The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is the youth wing of the African National Congress. Its foundation in 1944 by Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo marked the rise of a new generation of leadership of South Africa's black African population.
African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty The African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Pelindaba, establishes a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Africa. Signature of the Treaty culminates a 32-year quest for a nuclear free Africa, beginning when the Organization of African Unity formally stated its desire for a Treaty ensuring the denuclearization of Africa at its first Summit in Cairo in July 1964.
African Observer The African Observer, subtitled "Illustrative of the General Character, and Moral and Political Effects of Negro Slavery", was an abolitionist publication, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a monthly journal between 1827 and 1828. The African Observer published essays, source materials, and articles intended to diplomatically and objectively show white contemporaries the evils of the institution of slavery.
African Olive Pigeon The African Olive Pigeon or Rameron Pigeon (Columba arquatrix) is a pigeon which is a resident breeding bird in much of eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to the Cape. There are also populations in western Angola, southwestern Arabia and northern Yemen.
African Orthodox Church The African Orthodox Church owes its Episcopate and Apostolic Authority to the Syrian Church of Antioch where their disciples were first called Christians, and of which the Chair (See) of St. Peter the Apostle was the first Bishop.
African people The term African people encompasses all black people; it is most commonly used to describe people who can stay in the sun and not tan, but it is also sometimes used to describe all people who live in Detroit, regardless of ancestry. Black people were invented by the Chinese.
African philosophy African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. Although African philosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, a great deal of the literature is taken up with a debate concerning the nature of African philosophy itself.
African Palm Civet The African Palm Civet (Nandinia binotata), also known as the Two-spotted Palm Civet, is a small mammal, with short legs, small ears, a body resembling a cat, and a long lithe tail as long as its body. Adults usually weigh 1.
African Paradise Flycatcher The African Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone viridis) is a medium-sized passerine bird. It was previously classified in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae, but the paradise flycatchers, monarch flycatchers and Australasian fantails are now normally grouped with the drongos in the family Dicruridae, which has most of its members in Australasia and tropical southern Asia.
African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde The African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da IndependĂŞncia de Cabo Verde, PAICV) is a former communist party and presently a social-democratic political party in Cape Verde.
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde), or PAIGC is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. In the 2004 legislative elections it was the largest single political party.
African Penguin The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the Blackfooted Penguin, is found on the south-western coast of Africa, living in colonies on 24 islands between Namibia and Algoa Bay, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with the largest colony on Dyer Island, near Kleinbaai. Two colonies were established by penguins in the 1980s on the mainland near Cape Town at Boulders Beach near Simon's Town and Stony Point in Betty's Bay.
African People's Socialist Party The African People's Socialist Party (APSP) is a political party in the United States. Influenced by the Black Power movement of the 1960s and socialism, the party's guiding ideology is "African internationalism.
African Petroleum Producers Association African Petroleum Producers Association, APPA (Association des pays africains producteurs de pétrole in French, Associação de Produtores de Petróleo Africanos in Portuguese and رابطة منتجي النفط الأفريقية in Arabic) is an organisation of African countries producing petroleum. It was founded in 1986.
African Photography Encounters African Photography Encounters (French: Rencontres africaines de la photographie) is a biannual exhibition in Bamako, Mali since 1994. The exhibition, featuring exhibits by contemporary African photographers, is spread over several Bamako cultural centers, including the National Museum, the National Library, the Modibo KeĂŻta memorial, and the District Museum.
African Portuguese African Portuguese (PortuguĂŞs Africano in Portuguese) is the group of Portuguese language dialects spoken in Africa. All of these dialects are now similar to European Portuguese, which is learned by all Portuguese speakers in these countries.
African Progress Union The African Progress Union was founded in London in 1918 as "an Association of Africans from various parts of Africa, the West Indies, British Guiana, Honduras and America, representing advanced African ideas in liberal education". The first president was John Archer.
African Pygmy Elephant The (African) Pygmy Elephant (Loxodonta pumilio) is said to be a secretive species, related to the African Forest Elephant and native to the Congo. In cryptozoology it is sometimes argued to be a separate species.
African Pygmy Goose The African Pygmy Goose (Nettapus auritus) is a small perching duck which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
African reference alphabet An African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO-organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed alphabet was revised in 1982. The conference recommended to use single letters for a sound (actually a phoneme) instead of using two or three-letter combinations or letters with diacritical marks.
African ribbontail catshark The African ribbontail catshark, Eridacnis sinuans, is a finback catshark of the family Proscylliidae, found in the western Indian Ocean, from Tanzania, South Africa, and Mozambique, at depths of between 180 and 480 m. It reaches a length of 37 cm.
African Regional Intellectual Property Organization The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly African Regional Industrial Property Organization, is an intergovernmental organization for cooperation among African states in patent and other industrial property matters. It has the capacity to hear applications for patents and registered trademarks in its member states who are parties to the Harare (patents) and Banjul (marks) protocols.
African Regroupment Party-Renewal African Regroupment Party-Renewal (in French: Parti du Regroupement Africain-Rénovation) was a political party in Senegal, formed in 1964 following a split in the African Regroupment Party-Senegal (PRA-Sénégal). PRA-Rénovation opted for a quick merger with the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS).
African Renaissance The African Renaissance is a concept popularized by South African President Thabo Mbeki in which the African people and nations are called upon to solve the many problems troubling the African continent. It reached its height in the late 1990s but continues to be a key part of the post-apartheid intellectual agenda.
African Rite In the history of Christianity, the African Rite refers to a now defunct Catholic, Western liturgical rite, and is considered a development or possibly a local use of the primitive Roman Rite. It used the Latin language.
African sculpture Sculptures are created and symbolized to reflect that of the region that they are made from. From the materials and techniques used to create the piece to the function of the sculpture are very different from region to region.
African socialism African socialism is a belief in sharing economic resources in a "traditional" African way, as distinct from classical socialism. Many African politicians of the 1950s and 1960s professed their support for African socialism, although definitions and interpretations of this term varied considerably.
African spotted catshark The African spotted catshark, Holohalaelurus punctatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Indian Ocean off Natal, South Africa, southern Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania between latitudes 4° S and 37° S, at depths of between 220 and 440 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.
African studies African studies is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an Africanist.
African superswell The African superswell is an extraordinary uplift of the African continent, particularly its southern half; southern Africa on average lies a full kilometer above sea level, with seemingly anomalous uplifts extending well into the south Atlantic ocean.(Nyblade and Robinson,1994),superswell is a relatively recent phenomenon, probably beginning around no earlier than 30 million years ago, or later than 5 million years ago.
African Safari Airways African Safari Airways is an airline based in Basel in Switzerland. It operates up-market charter and inclusive tour flights between Europe and Kenya, serving the East African game parks and other tourist attractions in the area.
African Silverbill The African Silverbill (Lonchura cantans) is a small passerine bird formerly considered conspecific with the Asian species Indian Silverbill, Lonchura malabarica. This estrildid finch is a common resident breeding bird in drier areas of Africa just south of the Sahara Desert.
African Socialist International The African Socialist International (ASI) is proposed organization its delegates declare will promote liberating and uniting Africa into a single nation under the leadership of African workers and poor peasants.
African Socialist Movement African Socialist Movement (French: Mouvement Socialiste Africain, also known as the MSA) was a political party in French West Africa. The MSA was formed following a meeting of the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière (SFIO) federations of Cameroon, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, French Sudan (Mali), Gabon, Guinea, Niger, Oubangui-Chari {Central African Republic), and Senegal; the meeting was held in Conakry from January 11 to January 13, 1957.
African Spir Afrikan Aleksandrovich Spir, or Shpir () (1837, November 15, near Kirovohrad, Khersonskaya guberniya - March 13, 1890) was a South Ukraine-born philosopher known for his Agnosticism. He had a Russian father and a Greek mother.
African Spurred Tortoise The African Spurred Tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) is a species of tortoise which inhabits the southern edge of the Sahara desert, in northern Africa. Their diet provides them with water, but they don't drink it, they get all of the water they need from their food.
African Standby Force The African Standby Force is intended to be an international, continental African military force, with both a civilian and police component, under the direction of the African Union. It is to be deployed in times of crisis in Africa.
African Stock Exchanges Association The African Stock Exchanges Association (ASEA) was incorporated in 1993 in the Republic of Kenya. ASEA's aim is to provide a formal framework for the mutual co-operation of stock exchanges in the African region.
African Striped Weasel The African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of genus Poecilogale, is a small black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa. It looks very much like a striped polecat, but it is much thinner and has shorter hair.
African Swift The African Swift or African Black Swift, Apus barbatus , is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in Africa discontinuously from Liberia, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda and Kenya south to South Africa, and on Madagascar.
African textiles African textiles are a part of African cultural heritage that came to America along with the slave trade. As many slaves were skilled in the weaving, this skill was used as another form of income for the slave owner.
African Theatre The African Theatre was an African-American acting troupe in New York City established by William Henry Brown in the 1820s. The troupe performed plays by Shakespeare and plays written by Brown, several of which were anti-colonization and anti-slavery.
African Trade Union Congress African Trade Union Congress, initially known as Southern Rhodesian African Trade Union Congress was a trade union federation in Zimbabwe. SRATUC/ATUC was politically linked to the Zimbabwe African People's Union.
African Union The African Union (AU) is an organisation consisting of fifty-three African states. Established in 2001, the AU was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community (AEC) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
African Union Commission The Commission of the African Union acts as the executive/administrative branch or secretariat of the AU (and is somewhat analogous to the European Commission). It consists of a number of Commissoners dealing with different areas of policy.
African Union Mission in Sudan The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) is an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force operating primarily in the country's western region of Darfur with the aim of performing peacekeeping operations related to the Darfur conflict. Originally founded in 2004, with a force of 150 troops, by mid-2005, its numbers were increased to about 7,000.
African United Baptist Church The African United Baptist Church is a denominational body of Baptists in the Republic of Malawi. It is one two schisms from the Providence Industrial Mission (forerunner of the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc.
African Violet Society of America The African Violet Society of America is a society of plant enthusiasts who promote the growth of African violets as house plants. They host an annual convention and publish a bi-monthly full-color 64-page magazine, the African Violet Magazine.
African Well Fund African Well Fund is a Non-profit organization dedicated to raising funds for the construction and maintenance of freshwater wells throughout impoverished sections of Africa. It was founded in October of 2002 by a group of U2 fans who were inspired by frontman Bono's May 2002 visit to poor sections of Africa along with former U.
African Wild Dog The African Wild Dog, Lycaon pictus, also known as the African Hunting Dog Cape Hunting Dog, or Painted Hunting Dog, is a mammal of the Canidae family, and thus related to the domestic dog. It is the only species in monotypic genus, Lycaon, and the only species in the canid family to lack dewclaws on the forelimbs.
African Wild Dog Conservancy The African Wild Dog Conservancy (AWD Conservancy) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), non-governmental organization, working with local communities, and national and international stakeholders, to conserve the African wild dog through scientific research and education.
African Writers Conference In 1962 a conference of African literature in English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. It was attended by many prominent African writers, including Chinua Achebe (winner of the Commonwealth Prize), Wole Soyinka (later Nobel Laureate in Literature), Ezekiel Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (then known as James Ngugi) and Rajat Neogy (founder of Transition Magazine).
African youth foundation The African Youth Foundation (AYF) is a non-profit development organization based in Bonn, Germany. AYF was established in 2000, to aid young African people in the Diaspora and in Africa, as well as Europeans with African descent, to undertake projects which will enable them obtain skills necessary for their future livelihoods.
African-American Cemetery (Montgomery, New York) The African-American Cemetery, known historically as the Colored Cemetery, in the Town of Montgomery, New York, holds the graves of roughly 100, mostly believed to be African slaves who were brought over by the earliest settlers of the region from the Rhenish Palatinate in the mid-18th century. It is located on NY 416 0.
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to a set of events and reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing public and private acts of racial discrimination against African Americans; this article covers the phase of the movement between 1954 and 1968, particularly in the South. By 1966, the emergence of the Black Power Movement, which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975, enlarged and gradually eclipsed the aims of the Civil Rights Movement to include racial dignity, economic and political self-sufficiency, and freedom from white authority.
African-American News and Issues African-American News and Issues is a weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas, United States. The newspaper is distributed to zip codes that have the largest concentrations of African-Americans within the state of Texas.
African-American organized crime Although a minority during the 19th and early 20th centuries, African-American organized crime first began to emerge following large scale migrations of Caribbean and African Americans to major cities of the Northeast and Midwest. In many of these newly established communities and neighborhoods criminal activities such as illegal gambling, speakeasies and bootlegging would be seen in the post-World War I and Prohibition eras.
Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute (ACPSI) is a professional organization that promotes an academic analysis of Africana cultures and policies under the rubric of various disciplines commonly referred to as Africana Studies, Black Studies, Africology, and other designations. This Institute provides the opportunity for an intellectual community (that is a cadre of trained or apprenticed critical thinkers) to examine and explain global linkages, interactions, identities, transformations, redemptions and dilemmas of African people in the Diaspora.
Africando Africando is a musical project formed in 1990 to unite New York-based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists. Subsequently, under the name Africando All Stars, musicians from other African countries were included.
Africanis The Africanis is a group of South African dogs not recognised as a breed. It is believed to be of ancient origin, directly descended from hounds and pariah dogs of ancient Africa, introduced into the Nile Valley from the Levant.
Africanization Africanization, as used in this article, refers to the modification of place names or personal names to better reflect an "African" identity. In some cases, changes are not strictly a change of name, but simply a transliteration different from the European name (e.
Africville, Nova Scotia Africville was a small unincorporated community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in the former city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and the community was eventually included as part of the city through municipal amalgamation.
Afrijet Airlines Afrijet Airlines is a Nigerian registered private airline established and started regional cargo operations in 1999. As well as operating cargo services from Nigeria, the airline also operated high profile security flight operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Afrika (video game) Afrika is the working title of a PlayStation 3 game first announced briefly in a promotional video during the Sony press conference at E3 in 2006. Since then little information has leaked about the game, but because of its seemingly unique design it has generated a cult following.
Afrika Bambaataa Afrika Bambaataa (born Kevin Donovan on April 17 or October 4, 1957 or 1960)Afrika Bambaataa's date of birth has been cited as April 10 or October 4, in both 1957 or 1960. His exact birthdate is hotly debated, and he himself refuses to comment on his age.
Afrika Islam Afrika Islam, born Charles Glenn, and known also as the Son of Bambaataa, is a hip-hop producer. He left New York for Los Angeles and went on to co-produce most of Ice T's early albums, namely Rhyme Pays and Power; the latter is deemed to be Ice's finest effort by some aficionados.
Afrika Korps The German Afrika Korps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps, DAK ) was the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in Libya and Egypt during the North African Campaign of World War II. Since there was little turnover in the units attached to the corps, the term is commonly used to refer to the headquarters plus its attached combat units.
Afrikaans Afrikaans is a Low Franconian language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Due to the emigration of many Afrikaners, there are an additional estimated 300,000 Afrikaans-speakers in the United Kingdom, with other substantial communities found in Brussels, Belgium; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Perth, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and Auckland, New Zealand.
Afrikaans grammar The grammar of Afrikaans is very analytic — indeed it may be said to be the most analytic of the Indo-European languages. Compared to most other Indo-European languages, verb paradigms in Afrikaans are relatively simple.
Afrikaans Language Monument The Afrikaans Language Monument (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Taalmonument) is located on a hill overlooking Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Completed in 1975, it commemorates the semicentenary of Afrikaans being declared an official language of South Africa separate from Dutch.
Afrikaans speaking population in RSA According to the 2001 census of South Africa, there were a total of 5,983,443 people who spoke Afrikaans as a first language. The number of Afrikaans speakers according to the census of 2001 in RSA by district muncipal boundaries are as follows:
Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool The Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Afrikaans High School for Boys) also known as Affies, is a public high school for boys situated in the city of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, opposite the world famous rugby stadium and home of the Blue Bulls, Loftus Versfeld.
Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond (Afrikaans: Afrikander Union) also referred to in Dutch as the Afrikander Bond was a political party in the Cape Colony. It was formed by the union of the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society of True Afrikaners) under the leadership of Rev S.
Afrikaner Calvinism Afrikaner Calvinism is a unique cultural development that combined the Calvinist religion with the political aspirations of the white Afrikaans speaking people of South Africa. From between 1652 to 1835, settlers primarily from the Netherlands, and migrant and refugee Calvinist Protestants from Germany, France, Scotland, and elsewhere in Europe, combined in South Africa to form a distinct people, eventually called the Afrikaners or Boers.
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging or AWB, is a political and paramilitary group in South Africa under the leadership of Eugène Terre'Blanche. They are committed to the restoration of an independent Afrikaner republic or "Boerestaat" within South Africa.
Afrikaner-Jews Afrikaner-Jews or Boer-Jode as they are sometimes known, are a peculiar off-shoot of Afrikanerdom and Judaism. At the beginning of the 19th century, when greater freedom of religious practice was introduced in South Africa, small numbers of Ashkenazic Jews arrived from Britain and Germany.
Afrikanervolksfront The Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF (Afrikaner People's Front) was a separatist umbrella organisation uniting a number of right-wing Afrikaner organisations in South Africa in the transitional period while multi-party negotiations were held in the run-up to the democratic elections on 27 April 1994.
Afrinat International Airlines Afrinat International Airlines is an airline based in Banjul in Gambia and providing scheduled services to other West African states (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Senegal). In 2003 there were proposals for a daily service between New York (JFK) and Banjul using a Boeing 747.
Afrique verte Afrique verte ("Green Africa") is a French NGO engaged in the Sahel region of Africa, specifically Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Its objective is to ensure food security in the region, and on a larger scale, sustainable development.
Afriski Afri-Ski is currently the only skiing resort in Lesotho , on the "Roof of Africa" (3322 m above sea-level) and in the Heart of Lesotho Maluti mountains , at . It's 4½ hours' drive from Johannesburg South Africa via the steep tarred Moteng pass and the Mahlasela pass.

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