Example sentences for: african

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

  • Of course, we don't want to get caught up in the intentional fallacy, and a work of art of strength should be open to a variety of interpretations, but I think there's a danger of missing the plot (and incidentally patronizing African culture) if we deny Ofili's Madonna its subversiveness, iconoclasm, and sheer naughtiness.

  • The Borneo ironwood or belian produces the world’s densest, hardest timber after the South African ironwood.

  • You might still get lost in this maze of backstreets, reminiscent of a North African souk, but much of it has been renovated, tastefully, into the Yuyuan Shopping Center.

  • The niggers and darkies (where again the primarily adjectival word is the less offensive) of slavery became the Negroes and Coloreds of Jim Crow and are the African Americans and blacks of today.

  • ...I heard this many years ago on at least one other occasion from a very knowledgeable South African friend who explained that he could not cite a reference but regarded it as common knowledge.


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