Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief or custom.
- noun A linguistic feature of an African language occurring in a non-African language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African provincialism; a peculiarity of Latin diction characteristic of some of the African fathers of the church.
- noun A mode or peculiarity of speech of the African race in America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Eurocentric representation of Africans or people of African ancestry. - noun A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief, custom or
linguistic feature.
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Examples
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Pan-Africanism is destined to become a powerful force of change and will stimulate many more changes.
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Pan-Africanism is a result of perhaps the most significant and greatest change in Africa-a change in attitude towards themselves as people of equal worth and with unique characteristics and contributions.
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Over the years, these issues came to coalesce around Pan-Africanism, which is simultaneously a movement for the liberation of the African continent and an intellectual project aimed at contesting the ideological hegemony of the West.
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Over the years, these issues came to coalesce around Pan-Africanism, which is simultaneously a movement for the liberation of the African continent and an intellectual project aimed at contesting the ideological hegemony of the West.
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What honour would accrue to the ANC if it were to compete with the PAC on the issue of "Africanism"?
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What honour would accrue to the ANC if it were to compete with the PAC on the issue of "Africanism"?
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"Africanism" was not radical, but a cringing, "ja-baas" attitude to the struggle.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania A viable alternative or a flat spare-tyre?* 1998
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But on closer examination the PAC's "Africanism" turns out to be a slippery concept.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania A viable alternative or a flat spare-tyre?* 1998
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On closer scrutiny the PAC's "Africanism" turns out to be a blend of populist demagogy, and the insecurities of a leadership that is not confident of itself.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania A viable alternative or a flat spare-tyre?* 1998
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"Africanism" that its founders criticised the ANC's non-racialism, and the Freedom Charter vision of a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it.
The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania A viable alternative or a flat spare-tyre?* 1998
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