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      The following list names English words that originate from African languages.

      Adinkra – from Akan, visual symbols that represent concepts or aphorisms.
      Andriana – from Malagasy, aristocratic noble class of the Kingdom of Madagascar
      apartheid – from Afrikaans, "separateness"
      Aṣẹ - from Yoruba, "I affirm" or "make it happen"
      ammonia – from the Egyptian language in reference to the god Amun
      Bantu - from Bantu languages, "people"
      babalawo – from Yoruba, priest of traditional Yoruba religion
      banana – adopted from Wolof via Spanish or Portuguese
      banjo – from Mandinka bangoe, which refers to the Akonting
      basenji – breed of dog from Central Africa – Congo, Central African Republic etc.
      Biafran – extremely skinny (reference to the widespread starvation that occurred in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War).
      boma – from Swahili
      bongo – West African boungu
      buckra – "white man or person", from Efik and Ibibio mbakara
      Buharism - policies of Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, especially during his rule as a military dictator.
      bwana – from Swahili, meaning "husband, important person or safari leader"
      chigger – possibly from Wolof and/or Yoruba jiga "insect"
      chimpanzee – loaned in the 18th century from a Bantu language, possibly Kivili ci-mpenzi.
      chimurenga – from Shona, "revolution" or "liberation"
      cola – from West African languages (Temne kola, Mandinka kolo)
      dengue – possibly from Swahili dinga
      djembe – from West African languages
      ebony – from Ancient Egyptian hebeni
      fanimorous – from Yoruba "fani mọ́ra" meaning "to attract people to you"
      gerenuk – from Somali. A long-necked antelope in Eastern Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Djibouti)
      gnu – from Khoisan !nu through Khoikhoi i-ngu and Dutch gnoe
      goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo)
      gumbo – from Bantu Kongo languages ngombo meaning "okra"
      hakuna matata – from Swahili, "no trouble" or "no worries"
      impala – from Zulu im-pala
      impi – from Zulu language meaning "war, battle or a regiment"
      indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – "stories" or "news" typically conflated with "meeting" (often used in South African English)
      japa – from Yoruba, "to flee"
      jazz – possibly from Central African languages (Kongo) From the word jizzi”.
      jenga – from the Swahili verb kujenga meaning "to build".
      jive – possibly from Wolof jev
      juke, jukebox – possibly from Wolof and Bambara dzug through Gullah
      jumbo – from Swahili (jambo "hello" or from Kongo nzamba "elephant")
      kalimba
      Kwanzaa – a recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) for the name of an African American holiday, abstracted from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits [of the harvest]"
      kwashiorkor – from Ga language, coastal Ghana, meaning "swollen stomach"
      lapa – from Sotho languages – '"enclosure" or "barbecue area" (often used in South African English)
      macaque – from Bantu makaku through Portuguese and French
      mamba – from Zulu or Swahili mamba
      marimba – from Bantu (Kongo languages)
      marímbula – plucked musical instrument (lamellophone) of the Caribbean islands
      merengue (dance) – possibly from Fulani mererek i meaning "to shake or quiver"
      Mobutism – state ideology of Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo)
      mojo – from Kongo Moyoo "medicine man" through Louisiana Creole French or Gullah
      mumbo jumbo – from Mandingo
      mtepe – from Swahili, "boat"
      mzungu – from Bantu languages, "wanderer"
      nitrogen – from the Egyptian language. The salt natron, transliterated as nṯrj.
      obeah – from West African (Efik ubio, Twi ebayifo)
      okapi – from a language in the Congo
      okra – from Igbo ókùrù
      orisha – from Yoruba, "deity"
      Osu – from Igbo, traditional caste system
      oyinbo – from Yoruba, "skinless" or "peeled skin"
      safari – from Swahili travel, ultimately from Arabic
      sambo – Fula sambo meaning "uncle"
      sangoma – from Zulu – "traditional healer" (often used in South African English)
      shea – A tree and the oil Shea butter which comes from its seeds, comes from its name in Bambara
      tango – probably from Ibibio tamgu
      tilapia – possibly a Latinization of "tlhapi", the Tswana word for "fish"
      tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi)
      ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind, humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism"
      uhuru – from Swahili, "freedom".
      Ujamaa – from Swahili, "fraternity". Socialist policies of Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere.
      vodou – from West African languages (Ewe and Fon vodu "spirit")
      vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin
      yam – West African (Fula nyami, Twi anyinam)
      zebra – of unknown origin, recorded since c. 1600, from Portuguese ‘ezebro’, used of an Iberian animal, in turn possibly ultimately from Latin ‘equiferus’, but a Congolese language, or alternatively Amharic have been put forward as possible origins
      zimbabwe – from Shona, "house of stones" or "venerated houses"
      zombie – likely from West African (compare Kikongo zumbi "fetish", but alternatively derived from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost"


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