African

/ˈæfrəkən/

/ˈæfrɪkɪn/

Other forms: Africans

If you’re African, you’re from Africa. If you’re African-American, your ancestors are from Africa. African music comes from guess where? African refers to anyone or anything from a country on the African continent.

An African is a person from any African country. Whether you're from Angola, Uganda, Batswana, or any other African country, you're an African. Anything related to Africa can also be called African. African music, for example, has inspired many other genres, like jazz, blues, and good ol’ rock and roll. Since Africa is the home of the earliest humans, we owe a lot to the African continent.

Definitions of African

1. noun

   a native or inhabitant of Africa
   types:

   Black African

   an African who is Black

   Eurafrican

   a person of mixed European and African descent

   Algerian

   a native or inhabitant of Algeria

   Angolan

   a native or inhabitant of Angola

   Basotho

   a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho

   Bantu

   a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

   Beninese

   a native or inhabitant of Benin

   Burundian

   a native or inhabitant of Burundi

   Cameroonian

   a native or inhabitant of Cameroon

   Carthaginian

   a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage

   Chadian

   a native or inhabitant of Chad

   Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa

   a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe

   Congolese

   a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo

   Djiboutian

   a native or inhabitant of Djibouti

   Egyptian

   a native or inhabitant of Egypt

   Ethiopian

   a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia

   Ewe

   a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

   Fellata, Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe

   a member of a pastoral and nomadic people of western Africa; they are traditionally cattle herders of Muslim faith

   Gabonese

   a native or inhabitant of Gabon

   Kenyan

   a native or inhabitant of Kenya

   Liberian

   a native or inhabitant of Liberia

   Libyan

   a native or inhabitant of Libya

   Madagascan

   a native or inhabitant of Madagascar

   Malawian

   a native or inhabitant of Malawi

   Malian

   a native or inhabitant of Mali

   Mauritanian

   a native or inhabitant of Mauritania

   Moroccan

   a native or inhabitant of Morocco

   Mozambican

   a native or inhabitant of Mozambique

   Namibian

   a native or inhabitant of Namibia

   Nigerian

   a native or inhabitant of Nigeria

   Nigerien

   a native or inhabitant of Niger

   Senegalese

   a native or inhabitant of Senegal

   Sierra Leonean

   a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone

   South African

   a native or inhabitant of South Africa

   Sudanese

   a native or inhabitant of Sudan

   Swazi

   a member of a southeast African people living in Swaziland and adjacent areas

   Tanzanian

   a native or inhabitant of Tanzania

   Togolese

   a native or inhabitant of Togo

   Tuareg

   a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara

   Tunisian

   a native or inhabitant of Tunisia

   Ugandan

   a native or inhabitant of Uganda

   Gambian

   a native or inhabitant of Gambia

   Ghanian

   a native or inhabitant of Ghana

   Guinean

   a native or inhabitant of Guinea

   Rwandan

   a native or inhabitant of Rwanda

   Somali, Somalian

   a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia

   Xhosa

   a member of the Nguni people in South Africa

   Zairean, Zairese

   a native or inhabitant of Zaire

   Zambian

   a native or inhabitant of Zambia

   Zimbabwean

   a native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe

   Zulu

   a member of an eastern South African community; some live in KwaZulu-Natal under the traditional clan system but many now work in the cities

   Berber

   a member of an indigenous people of northern Africa

   Afrikander, Afrikaner, Boer

   a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans

   Almoravid

   a member of a Muslim dynasty of Berber warriors that flourished from 1049 to 1145 and that established political dominance over northwestern Africa and Spain

   Angolese

   a member of the Bantu tribes resident in Angola

   Herero

   a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola

   Hutu

   a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi

   Chiluba, Luba

   a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo

   Sotho

   a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages

   Batswana, Bechuana, Tswana

   a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa

   Tutsi, Watusi, Watutsi

   a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi

   Copt

   an Egyptian descended from the ancient Egyptians

   Amhara

   a member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia

   Eritrean

   a native or inhabitant of Eritrea

   Theban

   an Egyptian inhabitant of ancient Thebes

   Hausa, Haussa

   a member of a people living chiefly in northern Nigeria

   Edo

   a member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria

   Igbo

   a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria

   Yoruba

   a member of a West African people living chiefly in southwestern Nigeria

   Cairene

   a native or inhabitant of Cairo

   Nubian

   a native or inhabitant of Nubia

   Riff, Riffian

   a Berber living in northern Morocco

   Shona

   a member of a Bantu tribe living in present-day Zimbabwe

   type of:

   individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

   a human being
2. adjective

   of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples
   “African languages”