| African heavyweight | 19 |
| African healer | 14 |
| African hammerheads | 19 |
| African gully | 13 |
| African groundnut | 17 |
| African grazers | 15 |
| African grazer | 14 |
| African grasslands | 18 |
| African grassland grazer | 24 |
| African grassland | 17 |
| African grasses | 15 |
| African grass eater | 19 |
| African grass | 13 |
| African grain | 13 |
| African gold field | 18 |
| African goddess of fiction | 26 |
| African goddess | 15 |
| African goats | 13 |
| African gazelles | 16 |
| African gazelle | 15 |
| African garment: Var. | 21 |
| African garment | 15 |
| African garb | 12 |
| African game | 12 |
| African foxes | 13 |
| African fox | 11 |
| African fortress | 16 |
| African flying menace | 21 |
| African fly pest | 16 |
| African fly | 11 |
| African flower? | 15 |
| African flower you don't have to pay for? | 45 |
| African flower | 14 |
| African flies | 13 |
| African flier | 13 |
| African fish | 12 |
| African fight site for Ali | 26 |
| African fetish | 14 |
| African ferryboats | 18 |
| African families | 16 |
| African expeditions | 19 |
| African expedition, e.g. | 24 |
| African expedition | 18 |
| African expanse | 15 |
| African ex-dictator | 19 |
| African evergreen whose leaves are chewed as a narcotic | 55 |
| African evergreen shrub | 23 |
| African ethnic group | 20 |
| African ethnic and language group | 33 |
| African equine | 14 |
| African entertainer? | 20 |
| African enclosures | 18 |
| African enclosure | 17 |
| African ear of corn | 19 |
| African dry zone | 16 |
| African drum | 12 |
| African dowry | 13 |
| African dog | 11 |
| African disease spreaders | 25 |
| African disease carrier | 23 |
| African dictator | 16 |
| African dialects | 16 |
| African dialect | 15 |
| African despot | 14 |
| African desert: abbr. | 21 |
| African desert wind | 19 |
| African desert | 14 |
| African dangers | 15 |
| African danger | 14 |
| African dam site | 16 |
| African dam | 11 |
| African cypress pine | 20 |
| African currency unit | 21 |
| African creature | 16 |
| African country: Abbr. | 22 |
| African country with no coastline | 33 |
| African country with mountain gorillas | 38 |
| African country with a namesake lake | 36 |
| African country that was a French colony | 40 |
| African country renamed in 1997 | 31 |
| African country once known as Zaire | 35 |
| African country on the Med. Sea | 31 |
| African country on the Atlantic | 31 |
| African country nearest Spain | 29 |
| African country known as the Land of a Thousand Hills | 53 |
| African country | 15 |
| African countries on the Mediterranean, e.g. | 44 |
| African corral | 14 |
| African corn | 12 |
| African cooked tangy pie (8) | 28 |
| African cobras | 14 |
| African cobra | 13 |
| African coastal region | 22 |
| African coastal capital | 23 |
| African coast | 13 |
| African civil war site of 1967-70 | 33 |
| African city with famed botanical gardens | 41 |
| African city where Yves St. Laurent was born | 44 |
| African city of 4+ million whose name means, literally, "haven of peace" | 82 |
| African city of 2.5+ million founded by the Portuguese | 54 |