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African time

British  

noun

  1. slang unpunctuality

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"It is the time for us to improve. This is the African time and especially the Senegalese time. It is time for us to come back."

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022

But in reality African time is compressed - so that many events and histories occur within the blinking of some divine eye.

From BBC • May 3, 2011

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