black Africanoun [ U ]
uk/ˌblæk ˈæf.rɪ.kə/us/ˌblæk ˈæf.rɪ.kə/old-fashionedthe part of Africa south of the Sahara Desert
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- Both England and Germany have recently been basing their claims to parts of black Africa on the wishes and interests of the black inhabitants.
- In black Africa today there are more than a thousand government schools and some thirty thousand mission schools, with a more or less regular attendance of three-quarters of a million school children.
- One more long easterly stride, across the Atlantic, brings black Africa, and completes this rapid run around the globe, so far as distinctly heathen lands are concerned.
- Through it the Cross preceded the Crescent in some of the remotest parts of black Africa.
- To this "white" race Semitic Asia, a large part of black Africa, and all Europe was supposed to belong.