African is playing the piano around 1 (9)
I believe the answer is:
ethiopian
'african' is the definition.
(Ethiopian is an example)
'playing the piano around 1' is the wordplay.
'playing' is an anagram indicator.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'1' becomes 'I' (Roman numeral).
'the'+'piano'='thepiano'
'thepiano' with letters rearranged gives 'ethiopan'.
'ethiopan' going around 'i' is 'ETHIOPIAN'.
'is' is the link.
(Other definitions for ethiopian that I've seen before include "From, eg, Addis Ababa" , "found in Addis Ababa" , "Like Emperor Haile Selassie?" , "African national" , "from African country" .)