The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NIGERIA
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More clues leading to the result NIGERIA
- Earing I prepared for African Country
- Rise of first-class fellow in west African republic
- Manner, say, in up-and-coming country
- African country raising river spirit
- Farage cut off before broadcast about African country
- Frightful migraine, head splitting somewhere in Africa
- Somewhere in Africa, ‘dry’ European: ‘Drink up!’
- Country, one with capital in Abuja
- Revolutionary broadcast eg, in an African country
- Country song as popular on the flip-side?
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