Africanness

There is evidence of a strong feeling of 'Africanness' and a pride of being an African.

ANC Today 2004

There is evidence of a strong feeling of 'Africanness' and a pride of being an African.

ANC Today 2004

Makgoba, who has been quiet since he traded accusations with academic colleagues at Wits over the status of his qualifications, said universities should champion "Africanness", and high standards of scholarship, both in the country and to the wider world.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

The current set up is such that, we destroy the 'Africanness' in us for something else and then seek to yell about Pan Africanism.

Booker Rising Shay Riley 2010

'Africanness' shall be defined by our race, colour, gender or historical origins. "

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

But Africa has always been viewed as an undifferentiated mass where individual nation-states do little to temper the land's essential "Africanness."

Muriam Haleh Davis: Africa and the World Cup: Soccer as Evolution? Muriam Haleh Davis 2010

In this case, Africanness tends to be associated with blackness.

Muriam Haleh Davis: Africa and the World Cup: Soccer as Evolution? Muriam Haleh Davis 2010

But moreover, coverage of the World Cup has been obsessed with pinpointing, and defining Africanness, not overlooking or transcending it.

Muriam Haleh Davis: Africa and the World Cup: Soccer as Evolution? Muriam Haleh Davis 2010

Also, some of us came to recognize that, no matter what we describe our ancestry to be, until we can embrace our Africanness, we are vulnerable to being devalued in our own minds.

President Obama and the Mixed Race Mix-up 2009

Because of his presidential adventure, my African brothers began talking to and with black Americans, some of whom begun seeing their Africanness reflected in Obama's story, Obama's message.

Pius Kamau: Campaign Brought Communities Together 2009