title: Afro (disambiguation)
text: # Afro (disambiguation)
  
  An afro is a hairstyle.
  
  Afro, Afros, or AFRO may also refer to:
  
  ## Africa
  
  * Afro-, relating to Africa
  * Afro (currency), a possible name for the single currency of the proposed African Monetary Union
  * AFRO, the African regional office of the World Health Organization
  * ICFTU African Regional Organisation, a former regional union confederation
  
  ## People
  
  * Afro Basaldella, an Italian painter and a member of the Scuola Romana
  * Afro, a suggested name for African-Americans
  
  ## Art, entertainment, and media
  
  * Afro (album), an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1954
  * Afro (genre), a genre of Cuban popular music
  * "Afro" (1994), song by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  * AFRO, a North American television network from Afrotainment
  * Baltimore Afro-American, a newspaper
  
  ## Vessels
  
  * SS Empire Carpenter, a cargo ship built in 1942, later named SS Afro
  