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Africanize, v.|ˈæfrɪkənaɪz|
[f. African + -ize.]
To give an African character to; to make African; to subject to the influence or domination of Black Africans. Hence ˌAfricaniˈzation; ˈAfricanized ppl. a.; ˈAfricanizing vbl. n.
1853J. Buchanan Let. 12 Nov. in J. F. Rhodes Hist. U.S. (1893) II. 26 A violent..article in the Washington Union charging them with an intrigue with Spain to ‘Africanize’ Cuba. 1856S. Cartwright in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) II. 230 The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, the preposterous claims..and the Africanization of tropical America. 1865Cincinnati Commercial 4 July 1/2 A Yankee voice with Africanized accent. 1884N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 429 When the Africanizing and ruin of the South becomes a clearly seen danger. 1905Tablet 21 Oct. 649/2 They have become thoroughly Africanised, speak only the Ethiopian language. 1954(title) A Statement on the Programme of the Africanisation of the Public Service (Gold Coast Govt., Accra). 1958Economist 13 Dec. (African Suppl.) 7/2 The fate of Africa in the next decade, therefore, depends upon economic advance catching up with political advance in the ‘Africanised’ north and west. 1960Listener 29 Sept. 498/2 The ‘Africanization’ to which so many firms have had to bow, by promoting their messengers and office boys into managing directors and retaining their Europeans merely as ‘advisers’. |