what is an afro?
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Afro — Afro. Afro (アフロ, Afuro), or better known as Afro Samurai (アフロサムライ, Afuro Samurai) is the main protagonist of the Afro Samurai series. Afro is an incredibly talented swordsman whose father was decapitated in front of his own eyes as a child.
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- Afro Times Newspaper is located at 1195 Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn and has been in the business of Newspapers since 1996. Similar Businesses Nearby. Our similar businesses nearby shows similar businesses in their industry and region based on information found in their Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Review profile.
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Nigga Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/) is a colloquial term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic slur against black people. The word is pronounced the same as nigger in some dialects of English, including where common speech is non-rhotic. 1 Usage.
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- Ase (Yoruba) Ase (or às̩e̩ or ashe) is an African philosophical concept through which the Yoruba of Nigeria conceive the power to make things happen and produce change.
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Afrocentricity Afrocentricity is a paradigm based on the idea that African people should re-assert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity. During the l960s a group of African American intellectuals in the newly-formed Black Studies departments at universities began to formulate novel ways of analyzing information.
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African diaspora African diaspora. The African diaspora refers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas and among other areas around the globe. The term has been historically applied in particular to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in Brazil, the United St
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Creation Of The Negro The key to understanding what a negro is, is to understand the definition of that word and its origin. The word negro is Spanish for black. The Spanish language comes from Latin, which has its origins in Classical Greek. The word negro, in Greek, is derived from the root word necro, meaning dead. What was once referred to as a physical condition is now regarded as an appropriate state of mind for millions of Africans. Historically when the Greeks first traveled to Africa 2,500 years ago, the Egyptian civilization was already ancient.
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Afro-American Newspaper Afro-American Newspaper is located at the address 1612 14th St Nw in Washington, District of Columbia 20009. They can be contacted via phone at (202) 332-0080 for pricing, hours and directions. For maps and directions to Afro-American Newspaper view the map to the right.
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Afro Afro, sometimes abbreviated to 'fro, is a hairstyle worn naturally outward by people with lengthy or even medium length kinky hair texture, or specifically styled in such a fashion by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair. The hairstyle is created by combing the hair away from the scalp, allowing the hair to extend out from the head in a large, rounded shape, much like a cloud or ball. In people with naturally curly or straight hair, the hairstyle is instead typically created with th
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Afro-Russian Afro-Russians are people of recent African descent, or those who are perceived to be dark-skinned compared to other given populations that have migrated to and settled in Russia. The Metis Foundation estimates that there are about 40,000 Afro-Russians.
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- noun. 1  A white person (1970s+ Black) 2  A black person who prefers white friends, sex partners, attitudes, etc; oreo (1970s+ Black) 3  A hairstyle with a thick upright flat top that tapers toward the ears: Will has a fresh fade (1980s+ Black teenagers)
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Ase (Yoruba) Ase (or às̩e̩ or ashe) is a West African philosophical concept through which the Yoruba of Nigeria conceive the power to make things happen and produce change.
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- a form of hair extensions. often used by black women, and celebrites. it's woven, or glued, into the hair from the track. if done rite, it comes out cute. it may even look real, if its done real good. Nahoje: ooh Taquasha, yo weave is mad cute.
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What is AchÃ©? Aché (also spelled Ashé) is the primordial, mystical energy that exists in the universe and permeates everything in it. Aché comes from Olodumare, the Creator, and is manifested through Olorún, who rules the sky and is most often associated with the Sun.
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- The word “Black” is used around the world to describe people who have “racial” features indicating African ancestry. Please keep in mind that the convention of race has been discarded by science–genetically, we are all one race, and the human-genome project proves we are all from Africa.
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- A medium-length, well-coiffed Afro is a vintage hairstyle with a modern twist that accentuates and complements the natural curls of a black man’s hair. It can be well-tapered with a sharp lining or it can have a natural lining; in either case, it should not be more than 2 inches long.
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Afro-textured hair Woman from the island of Nosy Be, in Madagascar, c. 1868. Afro-textured hair is the natural hair texture of certain populations in Africa, the African diaspora, Australia and Asia, when this hair has not been altered by hot combs, flat irons, or chemicals (through perming, relaxation, or other straightening methods).
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- The term be­fuddles us because we are accustomed to thinking of Afro and Latin@ as distinct from each other and mutually exclusive: one is either Black or Latin@. The short answer is that Afro-Latin@s belong to both groups. They are people of African descent in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, and by extension those of African descent in the United States whose origins are in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Afro-Jamaican Afro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of entirely or predominantly African descent. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula. They were servants, cowboys, herders of cattle, pigs and horses, as well as hunters.fro-Jamaicans are Jamaicans of entirely or predominantly African descent. The first Africans to arrive came in 1513 from the Iberian Peninsula. They were servants, cowboys, herders of cattle, pigs and horses, as well as hunters.
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Ensete ventricosum Description [edit]. Like bananas, Ensete ventricosum is large non-woody plant — a gigantic monocarpic evergreen perennial herb (not a tree) — up to 6 m (20 ft) tall.It has a stout pseudostem of tightly overlapping leaf bases, and large banana-like leaf blades of up to 5 m (16 ft) tall by 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide, with a salmon-pink midrib.nsete ventricosum, commonly known as the Ethiopian banana, Abyssinian banana, false banana, or ensete, is an herbaceous species of flowering plant in the genus Ensete of the banana family Musaceae. The name Ensete ventricosum was first published in 1948 in the Kew Bulletin, 1947, p. 101.
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- For subsequent generations the comb has a range of meanings. In preparation for the 2013 exhibition ‘Origins of the Afro Comb’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, whenever I met someone who had a black fist comb I asked what it meant to him or her. Answers have ranged from: ‘Black Power’; ‘Black pride’; ‘Nelson Mandela’s release’;‘ it’s just a nice shape’; and ‘unity’.
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Abyssinian people The Habesha people (Ge'ez: ሐበሻ Ḥabaśā, Amharic (H)ābešā, Tigrinya: Ḥābešā; Arabic: الاحباش ‎ al-Aḥbāš), also known as Abyssinians, are a population group inhabiting the Horn of Africa.hen Portuguese missionaries arrived in the interior of what is present-day Ethiopia in the early 16th century CE, they took the altered word Abesha (without the letter “H” beginning) which is used by Amharic speakers and subsequently Latinized it to ‘Abassia’, ‘Abassinos’, ‘Abessina’ and finally into ‘Abyssina’.
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- Cumbia [ˈkumbja] is a dance-oriented music genre popular throughout Latin America.umbia is very popular in the Andean region and the Southern Cone, and is for example more popular than the salsa in many parts of these regions.
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- Posse is one of the most comprehensive and renowned college access and youth leadership development programs in the United States. In fact, President Barack Obama said in an interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “One of this year’s MacArthur awardees—the ‘genius’ awards—is an innovator named Deborah Bial.
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The Radio-Carbon Dating of the Voynich MS The analysis was done in the frame of an ORF TV documentary, and the public announcement was made during a press conference on 8 December 2009. The radio-carbon dating was performed by the University of Arizona, and described in detail in an internal report. It has been publicly presented at several occasions (1) , but I am not aware of a published paper on this topic.
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African armyworm The African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) also called okalombo, kommandowurm, or nutgrass armyworm, is an African moth. It is a very deleterious pest, capable of destroying entire crops in a matter of weeks.