Azania
/əˈzeɪnɪə
/An alternative name for South Africa, proposed in the time of apartheid by some supporters of majority rule for the country.
Derivatives
Azanian
- The Soweto Students' Congress and the Azanian Co-ordinating Committee are restricted in terms of emergency regulations.
- We truly do not know whether the Azanians were Kushitic or Bantu people; we rather tend to consider them as Kushitic.
- This is true for white people, Black people, Palestinians, Israelis, Irish, English, Boers or Azanians.
Origin
Greek (taken from classical geography), probably based on Arabic Zanj, denoting a black African.