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Anglophone Africa  

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  • Anglophone Africa refers primarily to sub-Sahara African states colonized by the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. English is the most widely spoken language in independent Africa, and twenty of Africa's fifty-three countries use English as their official lingua franca. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Anglophone Africa]

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