Africanization love

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  • noun The act or process of Africanizing.

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Examples

  • Land reform, Africanization policies and brutal repression have reduced a country that was once described as the "breadbasket of Africa" to a basket case.

    Will Travers: The "Wisdom" of Bob Parsons Will Travers 2011

  • The “Africanization” of Venezuela has been widely written about and dissected ad nauseam in many books and articles.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • Yeah, there are some superficial resemblances in the minds of rightist crackpots – the land distribution thing first and formost, but “Africanization”?

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • The most controversial aspect of the project is the degree of Africanization.

    How Long did it take? Steven Barnes 2008

  • "We remain loyal to our [colonial] past, but we live in a new epoch, that of Africanization," French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier told Le Figaro last week.

    AFRICA, POLICE THYSELF 2007

  • However, notes Steinmetz, “it shows the ‘Africanization’ trend in baby-naming among African Americans is gaining momentum and bears watching by expectant mothers.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • However, notes Steinmetz, “it shows the ‘Africanization’ trend in baby-naming among African Americans is gaining momentum and bears watching by expectant mothers.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • However, notes Steinmetz, “it shows the ‘Africanization’ trend in baby-naming among African Americans is gaining momentum and bears watching by expectant mothers.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • However, notes Steinmetz, “it shows the ‘Africanization’ trend in baby-naming among African Americans is gaining momentum and bears watching by expectant mothers.”

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Banda quickly showed that his policies would be strikingly conservative, including slow Africanization of the civil service and cooperation with the Portuguese and South Africans.

    b. Malawi 2001

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