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Africanist

American  
[af-ri-kuh-nist] / ˈæf rɪ kə nɪst /

noun

  1. a person who specializes in and studies the cultures or languages of Africa.


Africanist British  
/ ˈæfrɪkənɪst /

noun

  1. a person specializing in the study of African affairs or culture

"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

Etymology

Origin of Africanist

First recorded in 1890–95; African + -ist

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“In many Africanist and other worldviews,” she said, “the past, present and future exist together and communicate with one another. That colors a lot of my work.”

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2024

She is, as she says, “very loud and New York,” but her apartment projects an almost hermetic cool: Africanist art, a golden skull on a shelf, a tar-splashed vanity mirror.

From The New Yorker Feb. 26, 2017

The best-known of his works include versions of the flag in Africanist red, black, and green and “How Ya Like Me Now?”

From The New Yorker Mar. 21, 2016

The government declared the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress illegal organizations.

From New York Times Aug. 8, 2014

At a visit with Winnie a few months before, she had managed to tell me through our coded conversation that there was a rising class of discontented youth who were militant and Africanist in orientation.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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