The phrase "african materials" is not correct in written English due to the lack of capitalization for "African." You can use it when referring to materials that originate from or are associated with Africa, such as cultural artifacts, textiles, or natural resources.
Example: "The museum's exhibit features a variety of African materials, showcasing the continent's rich cultural heritage."
Alternatives: "African resources" or "materials from Africa."
Also, the first elastodynamic solutions for the rapid motion of crystal dislocations, developed by South African materials scientist F.R.N.
To avoid clampdowns, online vendors used codewords such as "African materials", "yellow materials" and "white plastic" in place of ivory, said Traffic, which did not specify the sites it monitored.
In brightly colored canvases that emulate the posters outside African barber shops and cinemas, Mr. Samba portrays himself walking side by side with a black-skinned Picasso and meditates on the contradictions between Picasso's use of African materials and the inability of modern-day African artists to have their works acquired by Western museums.
Inspired by Chris Seydou, a Malian designer who had begun using African materials in creating new clothes, Mr. Ouedraogo fashioned an entire "Pathe'O" line, persuaded the Miss Ivory Coast beauty pageant contestants to wear his clothes, and eventually opened boutiques in the Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.
Still, in the contest for acceptance some African material had a tough time making the cut.
One agent actually suggested that she "use the African material as background".
As always, there is an abundance of African material, but it takes patience to sort through the booths to find really unusual stuff.
The references to tribal African material culture showed the influence of Locke as well as that of the Cubists, whose work he was undoubtedly exposed to in Paris.
Brooklyn began acquiring African material as early as 1900 but picked up steam in the 1920s under the direction of the visionary curator Stewart Culin (1858-1929).
In an effort to get Africa into the larger art historical mix at Harvard, this season the art museums have scheduled three concurrent exhibitions devoted to African material, old and new.
By contrast, Brown uses actual African material, dances from Senegal, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast (where he has worked), with the knees bent, the buttocks out, the feet flat on the floor, and with the whiplash logic — where, in a turn, the torso is already around before the pelvis gets the message — that is only African.
