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Simple sentences
I can speak many African languages.
When you watch television or listen to the radio, the music which you hear is often African in origin.
Do you have African elephants?
African Americans demonstrated for civil rights.
African elephants have less hair than Asian elephants.
African elephants have bigger ears than Asian elephants.
My father is from South Africa. He is South African.
John Locke, the well-known philosopher of freedom, was a shareholder of the Royal African Company, which bought and sold slaves.
African folklore is very interesting.
The African elephant has bigger ears than the Asian elephant.
In many African countries south of the Sahara there is poverty.
In many African countries south of the Sahara, poverty exists.
I like the new South African flag.
Martin Luther King Jr. fought for civil rights for African-Americans by teaching nonviolence.
African elephants are larger than Asian elephants.
I have an African-American neighbor.
The gestation period for the African bush elephant is about 669 days, whereas that for a guinea pig is only about 70 days.
Namibia is an African state.
Uganda is an African country.
An African in Arkhangelsk. can you imagine that?
What are the differences between African and Asian elephants?
Dr. Pepperberg and her colleagues have found that Alex, an African grey parrot, can count up to 8.
The antelope in an African mammal.
Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States.
Movie subtitles
Landing a Chinese eunuch on the East African coast was essentially the same as landing an American on the moon - pretty impressive.
By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.
We got Mrs. Brown to sing like an African for you.
Africans are African But we are Africa!
I notice the African fellow. spends a lot of time in the cargo compartment.
What about one of our African desert stations?
Well, you're safe now, lad. but what are you doing here in the middle of the African jungle?
I say, who put up my South African heads?
I'm a simple South African.
Philip Lombard: that you are guilty of the death of 21 men members of the East African tribe.
General Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne, on the other hand, who never tired of demonstrating how he had fought the most calamitous campaign of the South African War was a fairly easy proposition.
They are sent back and forth by so many sentinels like the tom-toms of your African tribes. the echoes of your mountains. the wind whispering through your trees.
Nobody except yours truly can get up steam on the African Queen.
They'll be back, looking for the African Queen.
Thank you. I prefer North African dresses.
The African chasseurs went around the smalah to take it from the rear while Colonel Yusuf launched a frontal attack.
My star has died in the African sky.
Napoleon III desecrated the second republic and deported 12,000 of us to these wild African lands.
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer.
I'll get a flock of beautiful girls and give him a real African welcome.
For a North African tour. I couldn't say no.
Come to think of it, there's a boat sailing for the Mediterranean tomorrow, the Friesland, Swedish African line, cargo and passenger.
Do you think it's purely African?
Ain't nobody in Africa except yours truly can get up a good head of steam on the old African Queen.
They'll be back, all right, looking for the African Queen.
And the face, from the glimpse I got of it was like an African war mask.
The African sun did not make a success of you.
Her African tour was a triumph.
I must speak to Laroche-Mathieu. His defense of the African campaign.
Oh, hadn't that African got any piety at all?
Look at Roosevelt, Churchill. Look at what's his name in African Queen.
Your daughter, at her present stage of development is roughly on an intellectual par with the African gorilla.
It's pre-Christian, of course, but it doesn't seem to be truly African.
He was the African emir, Ben Yusuf.
Gaston Abelin, managing director of Omnium Mining of Senegal. of Ivory Coast Coal. of the Franco-African Electricity and Industry Company.
Until this day, they continue to worship African Gods.
Men of colour, a new African nation is independent.
For those who haven't experienced the charms of an African woman. these two women were made to alleviate your lonely hours.
News and current affairs
African farmers know that they need fertilizer; they just can't afford it.
Yet at Cancun, Mexico earlier this summer, it refused to open its markets even to exports from struggling African economies.
Switzerland and Australia surprisingly reached the elimination round, and the Asian and African teams disappointed somewhat, with only Ghana advancing.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that the two issues at the center of the G-8 Summit this July will be African poverty and global climate change.
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
More important, Meles put Addis Ababa on the map as the home of the African Union, and as a capital where Africa's worst problems could be discussed in a pragmatic manner, unburdened by colonial grudges.
He will be remembered as an African leader of major historical significance: visionary, despotic, and indispensable.
And African leaders, led by Nigeria's president at the time, Olusegun Obasanjo, took on the challenge of battling the continent's epidemics.
The US had not revised its policy, even with an African immigrant's son living in the White House.
When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.
Thus, even if the absolute income gap between an average American and an average African increases, why worry?
After all, such people argue, the average African would be a bit less poor.
In the past, a poor African might have looked at his compatriots and resented their wealth; now, both he and his better-off compatriots look at the rich world and resent the huge income gaps they see.
The support of NATO and the African Union are important.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.
Thirty African governments have ratified the ICC's governing statute, and several of the Court's 18 judges hail from Africa, as does a substantial portion of its staff.
Sub-Saharan African Muslims are less assertive, and they face considerably more difficulties in their attempts to articulate their rights and establish their presence in their respective states and regions.
Part of the difficulty arises from the perpetual African dilemma of identity.
Africa has been described as a continent having a triple heritage, and the African Muslim, too, has a split personality.
Even though Muslim practice is strong in Africa, there is widespread incorporation of traditional African rituals in ceremonies like weddings and funerals.
Muslims in many sub-Saharan African states are also minorities.
Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a secular state, as are almost all sub-Saharan African states.
As political power tends to polarize around economic power, sub-Saharan African Muslims have been under-represented in these mostly centralized political systems.
But, with the right policies, there is no reason why African countries could not follow a similar trajectory.
The international development community and many African governments want to work toward regional integration, linking the markets of 55 African countries.