Africanization
- noun
- /ˌæfrɪkənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- South African
- In response to pressure to help Africans overcome past racial discrimination, TANU adopted a moderate policy of Africanization, giving preference to qualified African citizens over non-African citizens for positions left open by departing expatriates.
Examples
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After Mtemvu's failure to limit Tanganyikan citizenship to Africans, some TANU militants and trade unionists decided to push for the rapid Africanization of the civil service, police, and military, which were still dominated after independence at the upper and middle levels by expatriate Europeans.
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In the nonagricultural sector of the modern economy, Africanization brought many Africans into industry, commerce, and import and export trade.
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"The process of Africanization of managed yards has gone much slower than we ever expected without heroic measures being taken to prevent it," Wilson says.
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Nonetheless, as a result of labor agitation, Africanization once again became official policy.
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Following the previously mentioned movement towards "re-Africanization" (see n. 8), a number of communities removed references to Catholicism from ritual spaces.
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The assumption underlying both Africanization and indigenization is that Asians are a socially marginal group.
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Through Africanization, land redistribution, civil service expansion, and minimum guarantees for education and health care provision by the state and harambee, the state was able to meet the social and economic expectations of the masses.
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The wholesale importation of cultural modernity would hasten its local assimilation and counteract the Africanization of the arts.
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Malula, an outspoken advocate of the Africanization of the church and a peer of Mobutu, denied authorship of the editorial but repudiated the presidential order to drop Christian names, and he urged other bishops to do the same.
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The government's initiative for Africanization aims to increase the number of African leaders in key positions across various sectors.
How Representative
Surface Forms
Morphology
Africanization = Africanize (transparent) = Africa + an + ize + ation
Formed via African -> Africanize -> Africanization; the sense 'process/policy of making organization more African' follows the expected derivation and is inferable.
Etymology
Africanization comes from Africa and the ending -ization, which means 'the process of making'. It often means making organizations or governments more African by increasing local leadership, ownership, or staff, which is why the word is used for policies that put more local people in key jobs.