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- noun The act or process of
Africanizing .
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Examples
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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
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The “Africanization” of Venezuela has been widely written about and dissected ad nauseam in many books and articles.
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Yeah, there are some superficial resemblances in the minds of rightist crackpots – the land distribution thing first and formost, but “Africanization”?
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The most controversial aspect of the project is the degree of Africanization.
How Long did it take? Steven Barnes 2008
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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