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Afrihili (Ni Afrihili Oluga ‘the Afrihili language’) is a constructed language designed in 1970 by Ghanaian historian K. A. Kumi Attobrah (Kumi Atɔbra) to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa. The name of the language is a combination of Africa and Swahili. The author a native of Akrokerri (Akrokɛri) in Ghana originally conceived of the idea in 1967 while on a sea voyage from Dover to Calais.