Afa or AFA may refer to:

Mythology and religion

Afa (mythology) Afā (also known as Toikia) is an '' aitu'' or supernatural being in the Polynesian mythology of Tokelau Tokelau (; ; known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of ...

, in the Polynesian mythology of Samoa * Afá, a West African religion, also known as Ifá in some languages

Governmental

* Agence française anticorruption, the French Anti-Corruption Agency *

Afa, Corse-du-Sud Afa (, ; co, Afà) a commune in the Corse-du-Sud department on the island and collectivity of Corsica, France. The inhabitants are called ''afayens'' () or ''afayennes'' () in French, ''afaghjinchi'' (singular: ''afaghjincu'', ''afaghjinca'' ...

, a commune in Corsica *

Afghani (currency) The afghani (currency sign, sign: or Af (plural: Afs) ISO 4217, code: AFN; Pashto: ; Persian language, Persian : ) is the currency of Afghanistan, which traditionally is issued by the nation's central bank called Da Afghanistan Bank. It is nomi ...

, the currency of Afghanistan *

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is a crown agency charged with development and promotion of the arts in Alberta, Canada Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of th ...

, arts funding body of Alberta, Canada *

Andorran Financial Authority Andorran Financial Authority (AFA), known as ''Andorran National Institute of Finance'' (''INAF'') between 1989 and 2018, is a public financial institution founded in 1989 that provides functions of financial regulation and control of the financia ...

, the financial regulator of Andorra

Sports figures

Afa Anoaʻi Afa Amituana'i "Arthur" Anoa'i (born November 21, 1942) is a Samoan-American retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. Since retiring, he has operated the World Xtreme Wrestling promotion and trained wrestlers at the Wild ...

, Sr. (born 1942), professional wrestler * Afa Anoaʻi Jr. (born 1984), professional wrestler

Entertainment

Anime Festival Asia C3AFA, also known as Anime Festival Asia (AFA), is a series of anime conventions held in the Southeast Asian region, with a core annual convention held in Singapore. The main convention is traditionally held over a weekend in late November to ea ...

, annual ACG event in Southeast Asian countries *

ARY Film Awards The ARY Film Awards ( ur, ), commonly known as The AFA's, is an annual Pakistani awards ceremony honoring the cinematic achievements of film industry. Winners are awarded the golden statue, officially the ARY Film Award of Merit, that is m ...

, a Pakistani Film Awarding Ceremony *

Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.Argentine Football Association The Argentine Football Association ( es, Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine league system (from Primera División to Torn ...

Australia

* Aborigines' Friends' Association *

Atheist Foundation of Australia The Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) was established in South Australia in 1970, when The Rationalist Association of South Australia decided upon a name change to better declare its basic philosophy, namely atheism. The foundation defines ...

Australian Family Association The Australian Family Association (AFA) is a conservative Christian political organisation. It was founded in 1980 by the National Civic Council's then president, B. A. Santamaria. Beliefs and lobbying The AFA states they were formed to "provide ...

Austria

* Academic Forum for Foreign Affairs *

Austrian Football Association The Austrian Football Association (german: Österreichischer Fußball-Bund; ÖFB) is the governing body of football in Austria. It organises the football league, Austrian Bundesliga, the Austrian Cup and the Austria national football team, as ...

Germany

Agentur für Arbeit The economy of Germany is a highly developed social market economy. It has the largest national economy in Europe, the fourth-largest by nominal GDP in the world, and fifth by GDP (PPP). In 2017, the country accounted for 28% of the euro ...

Antifaschistische Aktion ''Antifaschistische Aktion'' () was a militant anti-fascist organisation in the Weimar Republic started by members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) that existed from 1932 to 1933. It was primarily active as a KPD campaign during the Ju ...

Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA The Accumulatoren-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft (AFA) was a manufacturer of lead-acid batteries established in 1890 by Adolph Müller of the ''Accumulatoren-Fabrik Tudorschen Systems Müller & Einbeck'' with the participation of the Siemens AG and AEG c ...

Sweden

Antifascistisk aktion The Antifascistisk aktion (AFA) is a far-left, extra-parliamentary, anti-fascist movement in Sweden, whose stated goal is to "smash fascism in all its forms". Some of its members are influenced by the theory of triple oppression, and all of its ...

Taiwan

Agriculture and Food Agency The Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA; ) is the agency of the Council of Agriculture of the Taiwan (ROC) handling affairs related to agriculture in Taiwan. Organizational structure Operational divisions *Planning Division *Crop Production D ...

United Kingdom

*Amateur Fencing Association, former name of

British Fencing Association British Fencing (BF), formerly the British Fencing Association is the national governing body (NGB) for the Olympic sport of fencing in the British Isles (excluding the Republic of Ireland). History In 1902, the Amateur Fencing Association (A ...

Amateur Football Alliance The Amateur Football Alliance is a county football association in England. It is unusual among county FAs in not serving a particular geographical area. It was founded in 1906 as the Amateur Football Defence Council, was briefly known as the Ama ...

, formerly Amateur Football Association *

Anti-Fascist Action Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in the UK in 1985 by a wide range of anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. It was active in fighting far-right organisations, particularly the National Front an ...

Atrial Fibrillation Association The AF Association (AF–A) is an international charity that provides information and support for patients suspected of having, or diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AF); the most common heart rhythm disorder. The AF Association also works to camp ...

*Associate Financial Accountant in the

Institute of Financial Accountants The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is a professional accountacy body representing and providing certification for financial accountants in the United Kingdom. The IFA is a full member of the International Federation of Accountants. ...

*Approved Franchise Association, one of three trade associations for the UK

franchising Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organization as a strategy for business expansion. Where implemented, a franchisor licenses some or all of its know-how, procedures, intellectual property, use of its busine ...

industry.

United States

Military

Admiral Farragut Academy Admiral Farragut Academy, established in 1933, is a private, college-prep school serving students in grades K-12. Farragut is located in St. Petersburg, Florida in Pinellas County and is surrounded by the communities of Treasure Island, Gulfpor ...

* Air Force Academy (United States) *

Air Force Association The Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, professional military association for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, its declared mission is "t ...

Air Force Academy, Colorado The Air Force Academy is a census-designated place (CDP) located in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The CDP includes the developed portion of the United States Air Force Academy, including the cadet housing facilities. The CDP is a part ...

, a locality occupied by the U.S. Air Force Academy

Sports

American Football Association (1884–1924) The American Football Association (AFA) was the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing soccer body. It was the second oldest sports league to form, behind the National League of baseball in 1876, as well as being the oldest so ...

, first organization for association football (soccer) in the U.S. *

American Football Association (1978–1983) American Football Association may refer to: * American Football Association (1884–1924), the first attempt in the United States to form an organizing association football body * American Football Association (1977–1983), a minor professional Ame ...

, a minor professional gridiron football league *

American Freestyle Association {{unsourced, date=December 2007 The American Freestyle Association (AFA) was the first governing body for BMX freestyle in the 1980s. It was founded by Bob Morales in 1981. The first contest was held at Lakewood, Ca in 1981. Pioneer Riders in 1981 ...

, governing body for bicycle motocross (BMX) freestyle during the 1980s *

Arena Football Association The Arena Football Association (AFA) is a professional indoor football league based in Texas, Kansas and Mississippi, United States. The league began operation in June 2021 with five teams, known that season as the Lone Star Series. The league ...

, a minor professional indoor gridiron football league

Other

* Advertising Federation of America *

Ad Fontes Academy Ad Fontes Academy (AFA) is a private school, private, Classical Christian education, classical Christian school in Centreville, Virginia, Centreville, Virginia. AFA teaches kindergarten through high-school K–12 (education), (K–12) classes. Ad ...

American Family Association The American Family Association (AFA) is a Christian fundamentalist 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States.

American Farrier's Association A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves, if necessary. A farrier combines some blacksmith's skills (fabricating, adapting, and adj ...

American Federation of Arts The American Federation of Arts (AFA) is a nonprofit organization that creates art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops education programs. The organization’s founding in 1909 ...

* American Federation of Astrologers *

American Finance Association The American Finance Association (AFA) is an academic organization whose focus is the study and promotion of knowledge of financial economics. It was formed in 1939. Its main publication, the ''Journal of Finance'', was first published in 1946. ...

* American Flyers Airline * American Forensics Association *

American Forestry Association American Forests is a 501(c)(3) non-profit conservation organization, established in 1875, and dedicated to protecting and restoring healthy forest ecosystems. The current headquarters are in Washington, D.C. Activities The mission of Americ ...

American Freedom Agenda The American Freedom Agenda (AFA) was a United States organization established in 2007 by disaffected libertarian-oriented conservatives demanding that the Republican Party return to its traditional mistrust of concentrated government power. It ...

* Arkansas Fire Academy *

Asatru Folk Assembly The Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) is a white supremacist international Ásatrú organization, founded by Stephen A. McNallen in 1994. Many of the assembly's doctrines, heavily criticized by most heathens, are based on ethnicity, an approach it cal ...

, formerly Asatru Free Assembly *

Association of Flight Attendants The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (commonly known as AFA) is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. As of January 2018, AFA represents 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines. Since 2004, AFA has been part of the Com ...

In other countries

Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is a non-profit research and advocacy organization that promotes sustainable food, farm, and trade systems. IATP has offices in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Washington, D.C. and Berlin, Germany, an ...

Other uses

AFA (automobile) The AFA was a Spanish automobile manufactured between 1943 and 1944. Little is known about the marque other than that a few (1 or 2) 5 cv 4-cylinder cabriolets were built by Juan Aymerich Casanovas in Barcelona. AFA is for Aymerich Fábrica de Au ...

, a Spanish automobile *

Air force academy An air force academy or air academy is a national institution that provides initial officer training, possibly including undergraduate level education, to air force officer cadets who are preparing to be commissioned officers in a national air forc ...

*IATA code of

San Rafael Airport (Argentina) San Rafael Airport is a public airport located west of San Rafael, a city in the Mendoza Province of Argentina. It is also known as Suboficial Ayudante Santiago Germano Airport. Runway length includes displaced thresholds of on Runway 11 and ...

* Alternating finite automaton, in computer science *

Anti-Foundation Axiom In the foundations of mathematics, Aczel's anti-foundation axiom is an axiom set forth by , as an alternative to the axiom of foundation in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. It states that every accessible pointed directed graph corresponds to exac ...

, a mathematical axiom *

Afro-Asiatic languages The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

(ISO 639-3 code) *'' Aphanizomenon flos-aquae'', an edible blue-green algae *

Asian Film Awards Asian may refer to: * Items from or related to the continent of Asia: ** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia ** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia ** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...

, an annual Hong Kong award *

Brazilian Air Force Academy The Brazilian Air Force Academy (AFA, ''Academia da Força Aérea'' in Portuguese) is the Brazilian Air Force's educational institution that provides initial officer training for the main Officer Board of Brazil's Air Force Command. The Academy ...

(Portuguese: ) *

Portuguese Air Force Academy The Portuguese Air Force Academy (AFA, ''Academia da Força Aérea'' in Portuguese) is a Portuguese military higher education institution whose aim is to provide all its students with the training and the experience that will enable them to g ...

(Portuguese: ) *

Amfonelic acid Amfonelic acid (AFA; WIN 25,978) is a research chemical and dopaminergic stimulant with antibiotic properties. History The stimulant properties of AFA were discovered serendipitously at Sterling-Winthrop in the midst of research on the antibiot ...

, a stimulant and hallucinogen *Afa, a diminutive of the Russian female first name

Aviafa Aviafa (russian: Авиа́фа) is an old and uncommon Russian female first name.Petrovsky, p. 34 The diminutive A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the small ...

*AFA, an all-flash array in computing. {{Disambiguation, given name