1. sub-Saharan Africa - Noun
2. Sub-Saharan Africa - Proper noun
sub-Saharan Africa
(geography) Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.
Sub-Saharan Africa (uncountable)
Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa
sub saharan africa
I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Donald Evans
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites. J. Philippe Rushton
In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa. Claudio Hummes
One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. Robert Zoellick
I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. Annie Lennox
Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people. Bono