Africanize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to replace the European or white staff of (an organization in Africa) with Black Africans.
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to bring under African, especially Black African, influence or to adapt to African needs.
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One thing the Pope clearly would like to Africanize is the ranks of the clergy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of Christianizing Africa, so the policy runs, missionaries should help to Africanize Christianity.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bees in Southern California, originally from Europe, started crossbreeding with Africanized bees in the 1990s, said Orange County beekeeper Mike Henderson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
In other areas, monotheistic beliefs were blended with prehistoric religious practices to create truly unique cultural expressions, such as the Africanized Islam practiced by the Muslims of the Swahili coast.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Harlow’s move away from búgalu to a jazz-influenced update on Rodríguez’s more Africanized conjunto sound — which added more trumpets and percussion like conga and cowbell — was crucial for salsa’s gestation.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“People die every week from wasp stings, Africanized bees, not to mention hourly from auto accidents,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2019
Creole is an Africanized French and must not be thought of as a mere dialect.
From Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. by Johnson, James Weldon
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