Africanizationn.
/ˌafrᵻkənʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌafrᵻkn̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæfrəkənəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌæfrəkəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The action or result of Africanize v.; the process of giving something an African character or making it more African.
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1844 John Bull 5 Oct. 632/2 It is not alone in the development of the moustaches,..that we see manifest signs and tokens of the Africanization of France.
1856 S. 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.
1890 Congress. Rec. 23 Jan. 806/2 I said I was not in favor of the africanization of this continent.
1954 (title) A statement on the programme of the africanisation of the public service (Gold Coast Govt., Accra).
1960 Listener 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’.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Mar. a8/2 The Africanization of South Africa is almost inevitable.
2. The process by which honeybee populations become Africanized (Africanized adj. 2).
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1964 Bee World 45 119 The ‘Africanization’ of our European strains of A. mellifera was astonishingly rapid.
1984 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 57 622 Since there are no reports of vicious bees from either Guatemala or Mexico, these pockets of Africanization are apparently not creating socioeconomic problems.
2005 R. Jones Bibliogr. Commonw. Apiculture 66/1 The process of Africanisation of a honey bee population and the impact that this has had in the tropical Americas is described.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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