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Azanian

/ əˈzɑːnɪən; əˈzɑːnjən /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Azania (another name used esp by many Black political activists for South Africa)
“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


adjective

  1. of or relating to Azania
“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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Example Sentences

This occurred despite the formation, a month before, of the Patriotic Front, an alliance of the ANC, the PAC, and the Azanian People’s Organization around a declaration of common goals.

I remembered when I was one of thousands of young students who packed these very wooden benches listening to anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Azanian People's Organisation's Seth Cooper.

From BBC

Elsewhere, police and military forces were on alert for possible Easter-weekend attacks on whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress.

Afrikaners would have to accept minority status, and are barred from joining the Azanian organization.

So does the Azanian People's Organization, a small black- consciousness group.

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