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black Africa

name

Etymology

From black (“a dark-skinned person”) + Africa (“distinguishing the area from Egypt and the Maghreb”) Compare earlier racist tropes such as darkest Africa.

  1. derived from ἀ-
  2. derived from *ʕapar-✻
  3. derived from Āfrica
  4. derived from Affrique
  5. inherited from Affrike
  6. compounded as black africa — “black + Africa”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of sub-Saharan Africa.

  2. Alternative form of black Africa.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for black Africa. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA