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Afro Samurai: Resurrection

American actor Samuel L. Jackson returns as the voice for Afro and Ninja-Ninja, while this time he is joined by Lucy Liu, who voices Afro's enemy Sio.

Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital

Huddleston's grandson is Mike Espy, a former member of the House of Representatives and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

Afro-Brazilian history

The profits were huge: in 1810 a slave purchased in Luanda for 70,000 réis was sold in the District of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, for up to 240,000 réis.

Afro-Brazilian literature

Many of these writers were abolitionists that included Castro Alves, Joaquim Nabuco, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, and Naturalist writers that included Aluísio Azevedo, Jose Veríssimo, and Raul Pompéia.

Afro-Guatemalan

So when the saline control was threatened, they did their best to defend it, even took up arms in 1700 against the forces of the Audiencia.

Afro-Rican

However, Techmaster P.E.B.'s and Bass 305's success in the new sub-genre of "car audio bass" created a niche that was still in its infancy circa 1991, and Rahming saw an opportunity.

Arc d'X

The story begins as a historical novel, telling the story of the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his Afro-American mistress Sally Hemings, a young woman with a "skin that was too white to be quite black and too black to be quite white."

Asiatic

Asiatic style, a term in ancient stylistic criticism associated with Greek writers of Asia Minor

Baby Sister

Allmusic described the song as "too cute and overdone to be taken seriously" however The Baltimore Afro-American complimented the track as "new waveish" "ear candy".

Bao Guancheng

In a speech given in Manchukuo before his departure for Tokyo in September 1932, he derided the League of Nations as a failure and called for the creation of an "Asiatic League of Nations" as an alternative.

Bu Laia

Bu Laʻia (born as Shawn Kaui Hill in Waimanalo, Hawaii) is a Hawaiian comedian known for his use of Hawaiian pidgin and for wearing a large "afro style" wig and blacking out one of his front teeth while performing.

Caitro Soto

Pedro Carlos Soto de la Colina (October 23, 1934, San Luis, Cañete Province, Peru – July 19, 2004, Lima), popularly known as Caitro Soto, was an Afro-Peruvian musician and composer.

Cheetah reintroduction in India

Stephen J O'Brien, world's leading conservation geneticist and Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, has clarified that there is no significant genetic difference between the African and the Iran's Asiatic cheetah, as per genetic research carried out by him African and Indian cheetahs were only separated just some 5,000 years ago which is not enough for a sub-species level differentiation.

DJ LBC

In 2005, He also hosted the Fanta Mega Music Party which headlined South Africa's Mafikizolo, Pitch Black afro, and Mzekezeke

Dudu Pukwana

The second was Spear, with whom he recorded the seminal afro-jazz album In The Townships in 1973 for Virgin Records at The Manor Studio.

Elinor Tatum

Ms. Tatum was appointed to her position by her father Wilbert Tatum in 1997, and became one of the youngest publishers in the history of the Afro-American Press.

Ethnography of Argentina

Mestizo population in Argentina, unlike in other Latin American countries, is very low, as is the Black population after being decimated by diseases and wars in the 19th century, though since the 1990s a new wave of Black immigration is arriving.

Explorations in afro-cuban dance and drum

"Since 1996 local music teacher/musician Howie Kaufman has led Explorations in Afro-Cuban Dance and Drum, a workshop series at HSU that brings teachers and students from far and wide. Passion for the clave rhythm led some seriously dedicated Humboldters to find ways around the U.S. blockade (United States embargo against Cuba) of the Caribbean island and bring Cuban music and musicians here."—Doran (2011).

Despite the United States embargo against Cuba, a slight relaxation allowed the Afro-Cuban folkloric group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas to tour the United States in 1992.

Friends of FundeCruz

The Afro-Ecuadorian village of Piquiucho in northern Ecuador's Valle del Chota is a three-hour drive from Quito, the nation's capital.

Gladys del Pilar

After the victory in the Melodifestivalen, Afro-dite appeared again in the contest, in 2003 with the song Aqua Playa.

Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Arturo O'Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for 40 Acres and a Burro

Grenal

Inter was founded in a meeting at the Second District, a bohemian, commercial and college neighborhood, so mostly of the first Inter players and supporters came from this reality: students from inner Rio Grande do Sul, Italian and azorean immigrants and blacks that lived on the place.

Gyarados

Author Ash Dekirk wrote that Gyarados and Magikarp were inspired by the Asiatic myth of the Dragon Gate.

Hell-Rider

The latter starred a rough but basically goodhearted biker gang that Reese had encountered, consisting of leader Animal; Afro-haired Deke; weaselly Slinker; tall, blond Curly; and blond biker-babe Ruby.

José Morales

José María Morales (1818–1894), military officer and Afro-Argentine legislator

Julien Klener

His main teachings concerned: Judaism as a cultural system, Biblical Hebrew (undergraduate and graduate students) Comparative linguistics of the Afro-Asiatic languages(graduate students), Semitic Epigraphy(graduate students) and General Introduction to Semitic Studies(graduate students).

Justo Bolekia Boleká

His work has been studied by American professors interested in Afro-Hispanic literary production, and has been included in anthologies of poetry (Literatura de Guinea Ecuatorial, de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo y Mbare Ngom Faye, 2000; La voz y la escritura 2006: 80 nuevas propuestas poéticas, 2006).

Kudzu of the North

Persicaria perfoliata (esp. NJ to Mass), a.k.a. Polygonum perfoliatum, mile-a-minute weed, Asiatic tearthumb, devil's tearthumb, or devil's tail

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

La Femme Piège

At the same time in London, Jill is working on an article about the Afro-Pakistian and Zuben'Ubisch minority conflicts in the suburbs of Chelsea.

Landron

Jack Landron, an Afro-Puerto Rican folksinger, songwriter and actor

Libido language

Libido (also known as Mareqo, Marako) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Ethiopia, which is spoken in the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, north-east of Hosaena.

Lily Yeh

In 1986, Lily Yeh was asked by Arthur Hall, founder of the Afro-American Dance Ensemble, to create a park in the abandoned lot next to his studio in North Philadelphia.

Mad Ice

Ahmed Mohamed Kakoyi (born in Masaka, Uganda on 8 October 1980) better known by his stage name Mad Ice is a Ugandan singer and songwriter of Raggamuffin and at a later stage with Afro-pop and Afro-soul music.

Mambo

Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particularly danzón; the musical form of the same name developed from this section

Maurice Ruddick

Maurice A Ruddick (1912–1988) was an Afro-Canadian miner and a survivor of the 1958 Springhill Mining Disaster, an underground earthquake, or "bump" as the miners call it, in the Springhill mine in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Melo language

Melo (also known as Malo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia.

National Afro-American League

The National Afro-American League was formed on January 25, 1890, by Timothy Thomas Fortune.

New Ways but Love Stays

The original design used a photograph which depicted the three Supremes in Afros and black turtlenecks, giving them a Black power look.

Olivia Byington

She also wanted to share the singing, so she shared the microphone with Seu Jorge in "Na Ponta dos Pés," and with the great singer Maria Bethânia in "Mãe Quelé," a homage to Clementina de Jesus, a deceased Afro-Brazilian singer.

Paul Withington

Withington was awarded the Legion of Merit by the U.S. Navy in 1945, the Silver Star, the French croix de guerre, the British Mons Star, World War I victory ribbon, the Army of Occupation of Germany ribbon, the American Defense ribbon and the Pacific Asiatic ribbon with star.

Peggielene Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Pir Mangho Urs

Some Afro-Arab style festivals and dances like Gowaati, Lewa, Dhamaal, beating Omani style shindo, jabwah, and jasser drums are still popular in Manghopirs Lyari locale.

Princesses Nubiennes

Princesses Nubiennes is the debut studio album by Afro-French music duo Les Nubians.

Rara

The genre was imported to the Dominican Republic and is now an integral part of the Afro-Dominican music scene, where it is known colloquially as gagá.

Stieng

Stieng language, the Austro-Asiatic language of the Stieng people

Winterhalter

Albert G. Winterhalter (1856–1920), admiral in the United States Navy, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet from 1915 to 1917

Wolfram Eberhard

In Germany, Eberhard became the director of the Asiatic section of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig during that time.


see also

Afroasiatic languages

The term "Afroasiatic" (often now spelled as "Afro-Asiatic") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse (1914).

Amhara

Amharic language, an Afro-Asiatic tongue spoken by the Amhara people

Basketo language

Basketo (also known as Basketto, Baskatta, Mesketo, Misketto, and Basketo-Dokka) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Basketo special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, which is part of Ethiopia.

Daza language

Dazawa language, an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in a few villages of Darazo LGA, Bauchi State, Nigeria

Dime language

Dime or Dima is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith.

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro language

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia.

High Atlas Tamazight

High Atlas Tamazight ( High Atlas Morocco, Tamazight, Braber, Tachelhit, Souss) is a Berber language of the Afro-Asiatic Language family.

KBZ

Duhwa language, Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nasarawa State, Nigeria (ISO 639-3)

Shakacho language

Shekkacho (also Mocha, Shakacho, Shekka) is an Afro-Asiatic Omotic language, spoken mainly in Sheka Zone at southwestern Ethiopia.

Sidamo

Sidamo language, an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in parts of southern Ethiopia

Tamaha

Tsamai language, alternate name of an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia

Yebbo Communication Network

According to 2006 client request data, the Afro-Asiatic Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali and Oromo are designated as Yebbo’s Core languages, in addition to the Niger-Congo Swahili language, and the Nilo-Saharan Dinka and Nuer languages.