How to Use African in a Sentence

African

1 of 2 noun

• Most Africans are very proud of being African.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• And right in the middle of it, this: The African Meeting House.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2023-11-02
• In the bottom picture, a number of African Americans are located on and around a car.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 2023-07-03
• The African Union has thrown its weight behind a campaign for a more accurate world map that shows how big Africa really is.
  — Bright Simons, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• The case set important precedent for due process protections for African Americans.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2023-11-30
• They were dubbed the Ten Percenters to match the population of African Americans at the time.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-09-07
• Pastors in the African Methodist Episcopal Church were giving up chunks of their salaries to colleagues who lost churches in the area.
  — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
• The cultural event celebrates African and Afro-Caribbean music, dance, art and food.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
• However, many songs on the album feel timely due to how isolated many African Americans may feel at different stages in their lives.
  — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 28 Aug. 2025
• Daily reading was 49% less prevalent in African Americans than White by 2023, the new study found.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
• 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, 2023-08-14
• Chris Schalkx traveled as a guest of Cookson Adventures, which organizes five-night trips to the Central African Republic.
  — Chris Schalkx, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
• The daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister, Gibson grew up watching jazz funerals from her bedroom window.
  — Dian Zhang, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
• The African Union, the continent’s diplomatic organization with 55 member countries, endorsed the campaign last week in what advocates call a major milestone.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
• Kittles told me that the actor Isaiah Washington had founded a hospital in Sierra Leone after his African Ancestry test revealed roots there.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
• 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, 2023-08-26
• 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, 2024-04-03
• By late July, 89,566 mpox cases were reported by 25 African Union countries, and 720 deaths were reported by eight member states.
  — Jean Kaseya, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
• Angered by the presence of African Americans in law enforcement and other government posts, members of the Crescent City White League stormed the local customs house and killed 11 police officers.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2025
• With no buyers coming forward, African Parks eventually purchased the nearly 20,000-acre Platinum Rhino farm, along with the roughly 2,000 white rhinos living there.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
• Herbert captures remarkable scenes of white visitors indulging in nostalgia for the Confederacy blithely unaware, seemingly, of the violence and inhumanity of the pre-Civil War era when millions of African Americans were enslaved.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
• His short fiction has been published in Guernica, The Georgia Review, Chimurenga, and The Granta Book of the African Short Story, and translated into French and German.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• There is positive precedent from the East African Court of Justice and the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States regarding sedition laws.
  — Stephen Townley, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• This perfidious situation, unintentional as its creation may have been, was strongly critiqued as far back as 1983 by Jonathan Crush and Paul Wellings in an article in The Journal of Modern African Studies.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
• Among those arrested was John Hume, 83, the controversial former owner of the world's largest rhino farm who once bred about 2,000 white rhinos, roughly an eighth of the global population, before selling his operation to African Parks in 2023.
  — Dakota Bennett, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2025
• In the 1980s, the recreation club stopped using the building, which housed a food pantry for a stint starting in 2005, according to information from Indiana University South Bend's African American Landmark Tour.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
• The government’s Last Mile Connectivity Project aims to extend the grid to an additional 280,000 residences, 30,000 businesses, and health centers and schools in all 47 counties, according to the African Development Bank, which helped fund the effort.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Aug. 2025
• The qualification criteria for the 2026 Masters being held next April now include invitations for winners of the Scottish Open, Spanish Open, Japan Open, Hong Kong Open, Australian Open and South African Open.
  — Frank Pingue, Reuters, 26 Aug. 2025
• Bamingui-Bangoran National Park is in the northern Central African Republic, a landlocked country bordering Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Sudan and South Sudan.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
• Biodiversity protection is also embedded in the Paris Agreement, the EU Sustainable Finance Framework, the African Union’s AFR100 Initiative, and emerging taxonomies across Latin America and ASEAN.
  — Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025

African

2 of 2 adjective

• Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
  — Fox News, 2024-04-05
• What is your son’s experience as an African young man?
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• Scotch bonnet chiles can be found at many African and Caribbean grocery stores.
  — Lelani Lewis, Saveur, 2024-02-29
• Bennett is quick to clarify Okàn is not an African restaurant.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 2023-06-28
• Both of my parents are South African and moved to England, where I was born.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, Better Homes & Gardens, 2023-11-07
• This is Blinken’s fourth African trip of the Biden presidency.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2024-01-24
• The 35-year-old South African rapper was shot and killed earlier this year.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 2023-10-03
• The African restaurant was cited for not having paper towels or hand soap in the kitchen hand washing sink.
  — Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• The 70-mile race is done on a tandem bike throughout the South African capital.
  — Ale Russian, Peoplemag, 2024-02-17
• Despite drops in poverty rates over recent decades, one-third of African children face malnutrition.
  — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
• The statement did not say exactly when the couple were expected to arrive in the African nation.
  — Lucia Suarez Sang, CBS News, 2024-04-29
• Revelers dance and sweat on the asphalt to Black house music mixed with African and Afro-Latino rhythms.
  — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-21
• West African fraudsters also represent their work as a kind of redress for historical injustice.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• But Florida was a Pan-African experience.
  — Llerraj Esuod, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
• There was a time when the British carmaker purpose-designed these SUVs for African safaris.
  — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
• Sporting an unmistakable dark mane and unique folds of skin along their bellies, Asiatic lions are slightly smaller than their African cousins.
  — Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
• The new version weaves in African musical traditions, from township styles such as isicathamiya to the Congolese swing of kwassa kwassa.
  — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
• Horrifically enough, this same concept came to be used as a slur against people of African descent and was developed into a justification for slavery.
  — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 28 Aug. 2025
• But poor infrastructure and pervasive inequality meant that African American neighborhoods suffered most of all.
  — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• The African lions are Cyrus, a 7-year-old male; Juancito, a 6-year-old male; and Sefora, a 5-year-old female, according to the website.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
• The portrait of a gig worker thrashing to stay afloat recalls last year’s powerful migrant drama, The Story of Souleymane, which followed an African food deliverer in Paris.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
• But recent changes — which saw China grant 53 African nations duty-free access to its markets, as of June — have altered Beijing’s trade relationship with Africa.
  — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• The beloved New Orleans tradition has its roots in African American jazz funerals, in which grieving family members march with the deceased alongside a band and trailed by a second line of dancing friends and bystanders.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
• After earning its independence from Portugal in 1975, the African nation was plagued by 30 years of civil war, which left much of its countryside littered with dangerous mines.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Habun said the current HRC has no African American representation, even though African American residents have applied for open positions.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• Kirsty Coventry, the Zimbabwean Olympic champion, now serves as the first African President of the International Olympic Committee.
  — Essie Assibu, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
• Students will also see their admission discounted at JFK Library and Museum, Paul Revere House, and Museum of African American History.
  — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
• My only other experience with Ethiopian food — aside from a recent lunch at Konjo Ethiopian Food’s new location inside the Denver Milk Market — was in Minneapolis, where there’s a large East African refugee population, and a beloved restaurant called Dilla’s.
  — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
• Reaching our Brothers Everywhere (ROBE), based in Atlanta, is committed to educating, equipping, and empowering men to help increase breastfeeding rates and decrease infant mortality rates within African American communities.
  — Essence, 29 Aug. 2025
• Several major institutions have acquired work from Butter fairs of past years, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institute, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem and Detroit Institute of Arts, the release states.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 29 Aug. 2025