Angola
Portuguese: Obrigado/a (male/female)
Botswana
Setswana: Kea leboga
English: Thank you
Burkina Faso
French: Merci
Dioula: i-ni-che/bah-si-tay (no problem)
Cameroon
French: Merci
English: Thank you (in the west of Cameroon)
Cape Verde
Crioulo: ob-ree-gah-doh
Portuguese: Obrigado/a (male/female)
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
French: Merci
Dioula: i-ni-che/bah-si-tay (no problem)
Egypt
Arabic: shukran (ga-zee-lan) (very much)
English: Thank you
Ethiopia
Amharic: (betam) amesege'nallo' (very much)
English: Thank you
Gabon
French: Merci
Ghana
Twi: may-dah-say
Ga: oh-yeh-rah-don (spoken in the capital Accra)
Hausa: naa goodee (spoken in northern Ghana)
English: Thank you
Kenya
Swahili: Asante, Asante sana (thank you very much)
English: Thank you
Lesotho
South Sotho: kea leboha
English: Thank you
Libya
Arabic: shukran
Madagascar
Malagasy: Misaotra
French: Thank you
Malawi
Chichewa: Zikomo, Zikomo Kwambiri (thank you very much)
English: Thank you
Mali
French: Merci
Bambara: i-ni-cheh/bah-si-tay (no problem)
Tamashek: tan-oo-mert (Tuareg language)
Mauritania
Arabic: shukran
Hassaniya: shu-krahn
Morocco
Arabic: shukran (bezzef) (very much)
French: Merci
Mozambique
Portuguese: Obrigado/a (male/female)
Namibia
Afrikaans: Dankie, Goed Dankie (well, thank you)
Owambo: Tangi (widely spoken as a second language)
Damara/Nama: eio (spoken in the south and southeast)
Herero/Himba: Okuhepa (spoken in the north central and northwest)
English: Thank you
Nigeria
Hausa: naa goodee
Igbo: ee-may-nah (southeastern Nigeria)
Yoruba: eh-sheh-wuh
English: Thank you
French: Merci
Rwanda
Kinyarwanda: Murakoze
French: Merci
Senegal
French: Merci
Fulfulde: a jaaraama (singular), on jaaraama (pl)
Wolof: jerejef
Sierra Leone
Krio: tenk-kee
South Africa
Zulu: Ngiyabonga
Xhosa: Enkosi
Afrikaans: Dankie, Goed Dankie (well, thank you)
English: Thank you
Sudan
Arabic: shukran
Swaziland
Swati: Ngiyabonga (I thank you), Siyabonga (we thank you)
English: Thank you
Tanzania
Swahili: Asante, Asante sana (thank you very much)
English: Thank you
Togo
French: Merci
Tunisia
French: Merci
Arabic: barkallaoo feek
Uganda
Swahili: Asante, Asante sana (thank you very much)
English: Thank you
Zambia
English: Thank you
Nyanja: Zikomo, Zikomo Kwambiri (thank you very much)
Lozi: N'itumezi (spoken in Western Zambia)
Bemba: Zikomo
Zimbabwe
English: Thank you
Shona: Ndatenda/Masvita
Ndebele: Siyabonga kakulu
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