NonAfrican
Non-African is a relative descriptor used to indicate something not associated with the African continent or its peoples. In geographic and demographic usage, non-African denotes regions, populations, or phenomena located outside Africa; in other contexts it can serve as the counterpart to “African.” As a label, it is descriptive rather than identifying—rarely used by communities as an identifier for themselves. In technical writing or data fields, the concatenated form nonAfrican is sometimes used; more common typographic variants include non-African or non African.
In genetics and anthropology, terms such as African ancestry or non-African ancestry appear, acknowledging that modern
In ecology and biogeography, “non-African species” means species not native to Africa; similar phrasing is used