| African hammerheads | 19 |
| African healer | 14 |
| African heavyweight | 19 |
| African heavyweight, for short | 30 |
| African heights, mentioned by Ptolemy | 37 |
| African hemp | 12 |
| African herd | 12 |
| African herd animals | 20 |
| African herd member | 19 |
| African hide whips | 18 |
| African hill | 12 |
| African honorific | 17 |
| African hornbill | 16 |
| African hornbills | 17 |
| African horned charger | 22 |
| African hot spot | 16 |
| African hunt | 12 |
| African hunter | 14 |
| African immigrant in the Pyrenees? | 34 |
| African insect | 14 |
| African insect attracted to the color blue | 42 |
| African insects | 15 |
| African irrigator | 17 |
| African island | 14 |
| African island nation | 21 |
| African jackal | 14 |
| African jaunt | 13 |
| African journey | 15 |
| African jungle jaunt | 20 |
| African kingdom | 15 |
| African kingdom: abbr. | 22 |
| African lake | 12 |
| African lake discovered by Livingstone | 38 |
| African lake or republic | 24 |
| African lake spanning four countries | 36 |
| African land | 12 |
| African land whose name consists of three state postal abbreviations | 68 |
| African land: Initials | 22 |
| African land: Var. | 18 |
| African landmark near the Mediterranean | 39 |
| African landscape | 17 |
| African language | 16 |
| African language family | 23 |
| African language from which the word "chimpanzee" comes | 65 |
| African language group | 22 |
| African language grouping | 25 |
| African lemur | 13 |
| African lilies | 14 |
| African lily | 12 |
| African lily color | 18 |
| African linguistic group | 24 |
| African livestock pens | 22 |
| African living in Kinshasa | 26 |
| African locale | 14 |
| African long-finned ___ (fish) | 30 |
| African lumberer | 16 |
| African lute | 12 |
| African mahogany | 16 |
| African maize | 13 |
| African mammal | 14 |
| African mammal that eats ants, termites, and cucumbers | 54 |
| African mammal that's the ancestor of the donkey | 52 |
| African mammals, for short | 26 |
| African marsh-dwelling snake | 28 |
| African master | 14 |
| African media corp. | 19 |
| African member of OPEC | 22 |
| African menace | 14 |
| African menaces | 15 |
| African metropolis | 18 |
| African migrators | 17 |
| African model | 13 |
| African monarchy | 16 |
| African money | 13 |
| African money units: Var. | 25 |
| African mongoose | 16 |
| African mongooses | 17 |
| African monkey | 14 |
| African nation | 14 |
| African nation bordered by Mauritania | 37 |
| African nation founder Jomo ___ | 31 |
| African nation or boy's name | 32 |
| African nation since 1993 | 25 |
| African nation SW of Zaire | 26 |
| African nation that practiced Mobutism | 38 |
| African nation with a crane on its flag | 39 |
| African nation with a green, yellow, and red flag | 49 |
| African nation's former name | 32 |
| African native | 14 |
| African native village | 22 |
| African natives | 15 |
| African Nobelist for Peace | 26 |
| African nomad who hasn't had a thing to drink? | 50 |
| African nut | 11 |
| African nut tree | 16 |
| African of Dutch descent | 24 |
| African oil giant | 17 |
| African OPEC member | 19 |
| African orchids | 15 |
| African outback | 15 |