What is "sub-saharan"

Usage examples of "sub-saharan".

My spoken English is blank, scrubbed clean and unbranded, except for an occasional beauty spot: a deliberate sub-Saharan lilt, which I refer to sportingly as my drop of milk in the coffee.

In 1995, sub-Saharan Africa had the highest number of new tuberculosis cases of any global region, as well as a high rate of TB and HIV coinfection, according to the World Health Organization .

Level with its dusty sub-Saharan plain though it is today, Kumbi Saleh had once been great.

Pol Pot murderers of Kampuchea and pseudodemocratic groups in sub-Saharan Africa.

Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdoms with iron tools.

They also included Tonga's maritime proto-empire, the Hawaiian state emerging in the late 18th century, all of the states and chiefdoms of subequatorial Africa and sub-Saharan West Africa before the arrival of Islam, and the largest native North American societies, those of the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries.

In its place she saw the ruddy sparks of bush fires across much of sub-Saharan Africa.

While Aboriginal Australians and many Native Americans remained hunter-gatherers, most of Eurasia and much of the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa gradually developed agriculture, herding, metallurgy, and complex political organization.

In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

They include, notably, sorghum and pearl millet, which became the staple cereals of much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Now let's turn to the remaining question in our puzzle of African prehistory: why Euopeans were the ones to colonize sub-Saharan Africa.

Now let's turn to the remaining question in our puzzle of African prehistory: why Europeans were the ones to colonize sub-Saharan Africa.

Sean had heard estimates of the cost of these operations to Zimbabwe's economy, already one of the shakiest in sub-Saharan Africa, as high as a million dollars a day.

Macedonian and later Roman soldiers, Egyptian priests, Greek aristocrats, Phoenician sailors, Jewish merchants, visitors from India and sub-Saharan Africa - everyone, except the vast slave population - lived together in harmony and mutual respect for most of the period of Alexandria’.

Prior to colonization there were no national borders in sub-Saharan Africa.