The phrase "african backgrounds" is not correct as it should be capitalized as "African backgrounds." You can use it when referring to the cultural, ethnic, or historical contexts of individuals or groups from Africa.
Example: "The festival celebrates the rich diversity of African backgrounds through music, dance, and art."
Alternatives: "African heritage" or "African origins."
This may or may not thrill every England supporter, even those familiar with the South African backgrounds of his fellow Saracen forwards Mouritz Botha and Matt Stevens.
In spring 1995, Ali Touchent, an Algerian agent, began to gather and incite a network of disaffected young men from north African backgrounds to commit terrorist attacks in France.
This latest battle in Israel's simmering culture war, pitting ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazim of European origin against their slightly less stringent ultra-Orthodox Sephardic peers from Arab and North African backgrounds, has raised accusations of racism on one side and infringement of religious freedom on the other.
Here's a question I'd like to see in a GCSE maths exam: in a climate where only one in 13 (7.7%) university professors are from BME backgrounds, where only 50 out of a total 14,000 university professors in Britain are from black Caribbean or black African backgrounds, and only 10 of these are women, how much tenacity does one black female PhD student need to achieve her full potential?
Last week, I wrote about the coded language so many in the media use when it comes to discussing black athletes, and black soccer players with African backgrounds in particular.
Their inhabitants are mainly a mixture of indigenous, Hispanic and African backgrounds.
I'm from a South African background and there's this phrase – ubuntu – "I am because we are".
Kamel had grown up in the south of the country, in a family of North African background.
The couple employed mentors with an "African background" to connect with Zahara, who was adopted in Ethiopia in 2005.
She was picked out, probably because of her East African background and interest in coding, assigned to SOE and spent most of the war on North African operations.
The one silver lining is that minorities, obviously, do not vote as a monolithic block; while only 6% of African background voted Tory, 24% of Indian background did.
