How to Use African in a Sentence

African

1 of 2 noun

• In the bottom picture, a number of African Americans are located on and around a car.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
• The march began at the African Burial Ground and ended in the financial district.
  — John Bacon, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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 story of African Americans is not a perpetual sorrow song.
  — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
• The case set important precedent for due process protections for African Americans.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 30 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
• 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
• Life expectancy for Black/African Americans is four years lower than that of white Americans.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 July 2023
• As sunshine filtered through the trees at a national park in the Central African Republic, a mother lion walked along followed by her three cubs.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 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 African Union and the United Nations have also issued statements condemning the apparent coup.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 3 Aug. 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
• 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
• The aesthetic is contemporary African; more grounded than glamourous, more connected to the landscape than ostentatious.
  — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• In 2024, 72,506 cases of mpox and 1,288 deaths were reported by 20 African Union countries.
  — Jean Kaseya, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
• This week’s arrests followed a seven-year investigation by the Hawks, a special task force in the South African Police Service that focuses on organized crime.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 21 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, 26 Aug. 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

African

2 of 2 adjective

• Osh the African elephant makes quick work of a whole coconut.
  — Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
• What’s your relationship with some of the new African artists?
  — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 17 Apr. 2024
• There are massive African communities in these places, so why not?
  — Nelson C.j., Rolling Stone, 28 June 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
• 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
• This is Blinken’s fourth African trip of the Biden presidency.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• The 35-year-old South African rapper was shot and killed earlier this year.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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, 17 Feb. 2024
• The first, held last October, was attended by 45 African heads of state.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Throughout the film, Robinson’s choreography nods to African dance, hip-hop and jazz.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
• On top of this is the ambivalence of a number of African countries towards Russia.
  — John F. Clark, Fortune, 27 June 2023
• Schmitt says the idea of creating an African version emerged while the group was working in Tanzania.
  — Kate Bartlett, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
• 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, 29 Apr. 2024
• The world needs the amazing richness and beauty of our traditional African music and our culture.
  — Angélique Kidjo, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
• The first step arrived this year, when the category of best African music performance was unveiled.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
• The experience was a wake-up call, and James promptly shed his African American roots.
  — Angela Aleiss, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
• There were two African American men and one woman from Puerto Rico.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• Currently eight African countries have at least one double-B long-term sovereign rating.
  — Ann Rutledge, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Being a nascent market, African secondaries have yet to generate such deals on a regular basis.
  — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• 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 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
• Best known for its role in Middle Eastern and North African cooking, this thick chile paste brings a fiery kick to countless dishes.
  — Carole Kotkin, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
• Campaigners calling for the cancellation of African debt staged a protest in Ghana’s capital.
  — semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• West African fraudsters also represent their work as a kind of redress for historical injustice.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• 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
• 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