Wiktionary
n. 1 A specialist in African studies. 2 An African nationalist; someone who subscribes to the doctrine of Africanism.
Wikipedia
Africanist may refer to:
- A specialist in African studies
- A strand of African nationalism and activism against apartheid in South Africa associated with the Pan Africanist Congress
- A literary theory developed by author and critic Toni Morrison in her book Playing In the Dark
Usage examples of "africanist".
Whaila leaned towards the Africanist wing, why should his widow suddenly have become a communist?
He was, however, an Africanist and anthropologist, and so included in his purview not only the higher civilizations but also the primitive, his leading concept being of three distinct great stages in the total development of the culture history of mankind.
It might herald a determined infiltration of the area which would almost certainly I'e followed by a campaign to politicize the local black population, with the resulting protest rallies and boycotts of the bus line and white-owned businesses, and all the other trouble whipped up by the agitators of the African National Congress and the newly formed Pan Africanist Congress.
It was a comparison of the two leading African political organizations: the Pan Africanist Congress which was a jealously exclusive body to which only pure-blooded African blacks were admitted and whose views were extremely radical, and the much larger African National Congress which, although predominantly black, also included whites and Asians and mixed blood members such as the Cape coloureds, and whose objectives were essentially conciliatory.
After the Ivory Coast and Kenya had fallen upon hard times, Ghana was acclaimed by some Africanists as the new African “success story,” with a relatively stable government, led by a charismatic and somewhat-benevolent military dictator, Jerry Rawlings.