African managed to confine sickly-looking daughter (7)
I believe the answer is:
rwandan
'african' is the definition.
(Rwanda is an African country)
'managed to confine sickly-looking daughter' is the wordplay.
'managed' becomes 'ran' (both can mean organised or was in charge of).
'to confine' indicates putting letters inside.
'sickly-looking' becomes 'wan' (I've seen this in another clue).
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'wan'+'d'='wand'
'ran' going around 'wand' is 'RWANDAN'.
(Other definitions for rwandan that I've seen before include "From a central African country" , "African native" , "African chap" , "Kigali native, perhaps" , "Eg, a native of Kigali" .)