Africana

[ af-ri-kan-uh, -kah-nuh, -key-nuh ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. artifacts or artistic or literary works of any of the nations of Africa reflecting geographical, historical, or cultural development.
2. a collection of materials, as books and documents, on African history or culture.

Africana

/ ˌæfrɪˈkɑːnə /

plural noun

1. objects of cultural or historical interest of African origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of Africana¹

1905–10; Afric(a) or Afric(an) + -ana

Example Sentences

African teak, let me note, is not teak properly so called, but the timber of the Oldfieldia Africana.

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Mr. Duff Macdonald, in Africana, writes: ‘Every man who dies what we call a natural death is really killed by witches.’

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The 'Parra Africana' runs about on the surface, as if walking on water, catching insects.

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Another African bird, namely, the 'Buphaga Africana', attends the rhinoceros for a similar purpose.

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The Cachexia Africana, like other spanœmic states of the system, may run into Phthisis, or become complicated with it.

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