That’s right. According to the official ICANN list, there is a .Africa application made for by the guys below:
AFRICA, UniForum SA (NPC) trading as Registry.Africa, http://www.AfricaInOneSpace.org
And then, there is another application, for .DotAfrica by some other guys:
DOTAFRICA, DotConnectAfricaTrust, http://www.dotconnectafrica.org
Could this be a glitch or a realization that if you can’t own the dot, add its literal to the ICANN gTLD application? 😀