Whatever the spelling, the word is usually pronounced with a short o () in the UK, with a long o () in North America, Australia, Ireland and South Africa, and with either a long or short o in New Zealand.

The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the Ruwenzori Range ( the spelling having been changed in about 1980 to conform more closely with the local name ), and sometimes the Mountains of the Moon, is a mountain range of central Africa, often referred to as Mt.

Philatelists usually classify the 1921-1927 postal issues of " Kenya and Uganda " and " East Africa and Uganda Protectorates " under the KUT rubric, but the first issues spelling out all the names of the colonies came in 1935, in the form of common design commemoratives for the Silver Jubilee of King George V as well as a definitive series featuring a profile of the king and local scenes.

In geology, chott or shebka ( of the former the spelling is French, it is pronounced, and sometimes spelled, shott ; from Arabic šaṭṭ شط " bank, coast ", from a root šṭṭ " exceed, deviate ") is a dry ( salt ) lake in the Saharan area of Africa that stays dry in the summer, but receives some water in the winter.

The Cunene River ( Portuguese spelling ) or Kunene River ( Namibian spelling ) is a river in Southern Africa.

Isandlwana () ( older spelling Isandhlwana, also sometimes seen as Isandula ) is an isolated hill in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

The Naudé surname is one of numerous French surnames that retained their original spelling in South Africa.

Until the 1920s, Dutch was still the official written language of the Boers, which is why the older Dutch spelling persists outside South Africa.

Within South Africa, the spelling was updated along with Afrikaans spelling reform and recognition of Afrikaans as a language in its own right.

Franschhoek (" French Corner ", ( Dutch spelling before 1947 Franschen Hoek ) is a small town in the Western Cape Province and one of the oldest towns of the Republic of South Africa.

A bougarabou ( alternative spelling “ Boucarabou ”) is a set of drums commonly used in West Africa.

* Mauritania ( alternative spelling ), a modern country in Africa

Folklore of the Luo peoples of Africa speaks of a mighty warrior known as Luanda Magere ( Alternative spelling is Lwanda ).

The European honey bee originated from eastern Africa.

Migrating bee populations formed the original colonies of bee in western Europe, landing to eventually populate the continent from Africa across the Straits of Gibraltar.

The Western honey bee is native to the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.

According to the scientists who analysed its genetic code, the western honey bee originated in Africa and spread to Eurasia in two ancient migrations.

Several researchers and beekeepers describe a general trait of the African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata, classified by Lepeletier, 1836-( African honey bee ) Central and West Africa, which is absconding, where the Africanized honeybee colonies abscond the hive in times when food-stores are low, unlike the European colonies which tend to die in the hive.

Honeyguides are named for a remarkable habit seen in one or two species: they guide humans ( and more controversially the honey badger in eastern Africa ) to bee colonies.

Collecting honey from wild bee colonies is one of the most ancient human activities and is still practiced by aboriginal societies in parts of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.

Brother Adam investigated various honey bee races and made many long journeys in Europe, Africa and Middle-East searching for pure races and interesting local stocks.

Short and Horne ( 2002b ) agree, noting that bee colonies are seasonally very common in Africa and Ratels probably have no trouble finding them.

The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees ( A. m. scutellata ) accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 near Uberlândia, Minas Gerais State in the southeast of Brazil from hives operated by Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

However, bee brood is edible, and is used as a food in Asia and Africa.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

No matter that the Katanga operation is strategically insane in terms of Western interests in Africa.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Today, Africa is swerving violently away from the West and plunging, it would seem, into the Soviet orbit.

World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).

It is not developing an awareness of the new kind of missionary strategy that is called for as young churches emerge in Asia and Africa.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

In West Africa, for example, where meat is a luxury and babies must be weaned early to make room at the breast for later arrivals, a childhood menace is kwashiorkor, or `` Red Johnny '', a growth-stunting protein deficiency ( signs: reddish hair, bloated belly ) that kills more than half its victims, leaves the rest prey for parasites and lingering tropical disease.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

The abacus was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.

The aardvark ( Orycteropus afer ) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa.

The aardwolf ( Proteles cristata ) is a small, insectivorous mammal, native to East Africa and Southern Africa.

The first is between western Australia and eastern Africa.

The modern nation of Ethiopia, in northeast Africa, is nowhere near the Ethiopic Ocean, which would be said to lie off the west coast of Africa.

Lanaria lanata is the only species in the family Lanariaceae and is found in southern South Africa.