Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make African or cause to have African characteristics, as in culture.
- intransitive verb To transfer to African control.
- intransitive verb To become African.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give an African character to.
- To place under negro domination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb American To place under the domination of Africans or negroes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, American To make
African .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Museveni invited the Ugandan-born businessmen of South Asian descent back to Uganda to reclaim their properties seized by dictator Idi Amin in a drive to "Africanize" the economy.
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Mugabe said in an interview with Britain's Independent newspaper that his government was eyeing foreign-owned firms, including mines and some 400 British-controlled businesses, for possible seizure as part of his campaign to "Africanize" his country's assets.
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"Africanize" the country's assets, the Independent newspaper reported Thursday.
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Mugabe's effort to "Africanize" the nation's assets - have devastated the agriculture-based economy.
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People from outside do not see it as clearly as those of us who live it daily, but even from out here in Uganda, to Africanize a recently overused quote, "you can put lipstick on a goat, but it's still a goat."
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He does not wish to Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his Negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he believes — foolishly, perhaps, but fervently — that Negro blood has yet a message for the world.
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He does not wish to Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his Negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he believes — foolishly, perhaps, but fervently — that Negro blood has yet a message for the world.
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"The problem," says Catholic Archbishop Peter Sarpong of Kumasi, Ghana, "is not how to Christianize Africa" -- the old missionary approach -- "but how to Africanize Christianity."
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Since the BaKongo prophetess Beatrice Kimpa Vita of the late 17th century, Africans had sought to Africanize European cultural institutions such as the church.
G. Africa, 1795-1917 2001
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And so, undeterred, Ogot continued to “Africanize” the institute.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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