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capable person / Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid
HSK 7-9
Johannesburg, South Africa
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  *非* | 非* | *非
abbr. for 非洲, Africa
China-Africa (relations) / Central Africa / Central African Republic
South Africa / Southern Africa
South Central China (Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan) / abbr. for China-South Africa
East Africa
North Africa
West Africa
black devil (derogatory term for black or African person)
the Nile (river in northeastern Africa)
Niger (country in West Africa) / Niger River, West Africa
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
Cape Town (city in South Africa)
Central African Republic
Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast in West Africa
African National Congress, ANC / abbr. for 非洲人國民大會|非洲人国民大会
Aztec or African marigold (Tagetes erecta)
Tanganyika on continent of West Africa, one component of Tanzania
BRIC / BRICS economic bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
Durban (city in South Africa)
Africa
Africa / abbr. for 阿非利加洲
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (Tw)
Horn of Africa
sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis / see also 非洲錐蟲病|非洲锥虫病
Bangui, capital of Central African Republic
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
African Union
Zuma (name) / Jacob Zuma (1942-), South African ANC politician, vice-president 1999-2005, president 2009-2018
Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013
of African descent
East African Rift Valley
African Union (AU) (abbr. for 非洲聯盟|非洲联盟)
Lake Tanganyika in East Africa
native state (term used by British Colonial power to refer to independent states of India or Africa)
Berber people of North Africa
sleeping sickness / African trypanosomiasis
Asia, Africa and Latin America
Liu Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative to Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue
African National Congress, ANC
Cape Ras Hafun, Somalia, the easternmost point in Africa
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology) / Atlas mountains of north Africa
Africa (abbr. to 非洲)
single origin out of Africa (current mainstream theory of human evolution)
East African Rift Valley
name of various places including Gold Coast (Australian city), Gold Coast (former British colony in Africa) and Costa Daurada (area on the coast of Catalonia, Spain)
London University School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Niger River of West Africa
Homo habilis, extinct species of upright East African hominid (Tw)
bushman (African ethnic group)
sub-Saharan Africa
Pretoria, capital of South Africa (Tw)
Chinese name for African kingdom in Somalia, cf Mogadishu 摩加迪沙
East African Community
Great East African rift valley
(Johannes Lodewikus) Viljoen (South African ambassador to Taiwan)
Spanish Sahara (former Spanish colony in Africa)
African (person)
Organization of African Unity
African Development Bank


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