Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa

A geographical group of French colonies in West Africa under the supervisory authority of a single governor-general, comprising the following colonised countries (present names as independent republics in parentheses if different): Dahomey (Benin), French Guinea (Guinea), the French Sudan (Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso). The last governor-general was also the first of two successive High commissioners, charged with the transition to independence as independent republics, without a common administrative level.

The official name of South Africa, a country in Southern Africa. / (proscribed) The Transvaal statelet from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902.

A former German colony in East Africa, spread mostly over present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.

A former colony of Portugal in Africa, now called Angola.

(historical) A former province of South Africa, which gained independence in 1990 and was renamed to Namibia.

A former colony of Portugal in East Africa, now called Mozambique.

(historical) A federation in central Africa, stretching from the Sahara to the Congo River.

(geography) Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.

a former British protectorate in the area of present-day Malawi, between 1891 and 1907