Example sentences for: africa

How can you use “africa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The aim of this new funding body, which has a budget of €400 million spread over five years, is a noble one: to fund research in developing countries, particularly in Africa, that contributes to the development of affordable prophylactics and drugs for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

  • (He markets his own remedies, which include a controversial, developed-in-Africa AIDS medication, through Nation of Islam grocers.)

  • I am willing to take Bryson's word for many of the bits of information with which this book abounds, to wit, “Among the Xoxa tribe of South Africa the most provocative remark is hlebeshako -- `your mother's ears,' ” the wisdom that “Some cultures don't swear at all,” and the revelation that in Finland, “When you stub your toe getting up to answer the wrong number at 2.00 a.m.,” you mutter (shout?)

  • Other continents also have names that are part transliteration, part zhōu : Europe is oūzhōu , Asia, yāzhōu , and Africa fēizhōu .

  • During the past two centuries, however, some of the sailors have turned away from fishing and instead, taken to the cargo trade between Portugal and North Africa.


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