Africanistn.adj.

1880 R. N. Cust Ling. & Oriental Ess. xv. 471 It is impossible in any survey of Oriental scholars..to omit the field of Africa, occupied by the company of Africanists.

1895 A. S. White in 19th Cent. Sept. 455 (heading) Africanists in Council.

1926 E. W. Smith Christian Mission in Afr. vii. 56 A representative gathering attended by the leading Africanists of many nationalities.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. xi. 433 Some Africanists make of the latter a distinct West African group.

1991 Drew Mag. Nov. 8/1 This collection of essays by an international group of Africanists, including Peek, offers insight into current discussions on comparative epistemology.

2007 Guardian 28 May 30/1 By 1980 he was known by Africanists worldwide as the leading expert in the study of goldweights.

1958 Cape Times 22 Dec. 12/7 What is the origin of the Africanists, the extreme Black nationalist group which recently broke away from the African National Congress?

1960 Times 12 Feb. 13/5 The Africanist would..like to know to what extent rule of Europeans in the West Indies ever resulted in the creation of economic privilege of the kind built up by European minorities in Africa.

1963 A. F. Brockway Afr. Socialism iii. 47 Touré is..the classical Africanist, unwilling to be the tool of any external Power or bloc of Powers, rejecting alike Western capitalism, European social democracy and Soviet communism.

1996 Independent on Sunday 16 June 14/7 We, too, were Africanists; we, too, stressed ethnic pride and racial self-confidence; we, too, rejected white assistance in the struggle.

1918 F. M. Colby New Internat. Year Bk. 1917 34/2 The first issue of the Harvard African Studies under the editorship of Oric Bates and F. H. Sterns bodes well for the prosecution of Africanist researches in this country.

1939 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 24 57 The remarkable development of Africanist studies in the Hispanic American republics during the past ten or fifteen years.

1989 Jrnl. Musicol. 7 ii. 273 Waterman's incisive presentation on ‘The Uneven Development of Africanist Ethnomusicology’.

2003 R. Sieburth in E. Pound Pisan Cantos Introd. p. xxi All of these Africanist elements converge in what is perhaps the single most moving passage of the first Canto of the Pisans, which gratefully celebrates the humanitas and caritas of a certain Mr. Edwards, the black soldier who [etc.].

1958 Spectator 13 June 760/2 The African National Congress and other Africanist forces.

1960 Daily Tel. 22 Aug. 8/2 Maybe Mr. Krushchev will find himself in the awkward position of being more ‘Africanist’ and more racialist than some of the independent African leaders themselves.

2000 J. Seekings UDF: Hist. United Democratic Front in S. Afr., 1983–1991 i. 8 The ANC incorporated Africanist ideas into a Marxist discourse.