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1816 H. Koster Trav. Brazil xx. 449 Slavery he styles ‘a terrible cancer in the body politic, which tends to impede the increase of the white race’, and..‘to Africanize the New World.’

1853 J. Buchanan Let. 12 Nov. in J. F. Rhodes Hist. U.S. (1893) II. 26 A violent..article in the Washington Union charging them with an intrigue with Spain to ‘Africanize’ Cuba.

1884 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 429 This is a white man's country; and a white man's government; and the white race will never allow a section of it to be Africanized.

1905 Tablet 21 Oct. 649/2 They have become thoroughly Africanised, speak only the Ethiopian language.

1959 N. Sithole Afr. Nationalism xii. 157 While the Westerners may be consciously Westernizing Africa, Africa is also unconsciously Africanizing them.

1990 Jazz FM No. 1. (Insert) 8/1 His incorporation of blues-singers' techniques,..represented one way of Africanising previously inflexible European-designed instruments.

2008 In these Times (Nexis) Feb. 35 He Africanized his name.

1850 Amer. Rev. Oct. 434/2 In the opinion of the Committee, it is highly important to prevent the further Africanizing of the American continents.

1884 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 429 When the Africanizing and ruin of the South becomes a clearly seen danger.

1999 M. Joseph Nomadic Identities v. 79 Nyerere's public speeches addressed national property, the Africanizing of the state, and the early nationalization measures of 1962 to 1965.