Africanism is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Africanism in a sentence
Africanism meaning
- Eurocentric representation of Africans or people of African ancestry.
- A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief, custom or linguistic feature.
Using Africanism
- The main meaning on this page is: Eurocentric representation of Africans or people of African ancestry. | A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief, custom or linguistic feature.
- In the example corpus, africanism often appears in combinations such as: pan africanism, and africanism.
Context around Africanism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Africanism
- In this selection, "africanism" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pan and simply stand out and add context to how "africanism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include africanize and africanism are not and and pan africanism. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "africanism" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with africanism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He inspired independence movements across Africa and symbolised Pan-Africanism and progress. (12 words)
Nkrumah actively promoted a policy of Pan-Africanism from the beginning of his Presidency. (14 words)
Nkrumah's dedications to pan-africanism in action attracted these intellectuals to his Ghanaian projects. (15 words)
Adopting PanAfricanism or simply Africanism as a policy is not new but it is time it is strongly pursued in politics, commerce, law, etc. in order to protect people of African origin (be it in Europe, Brazil, U.S., or in Africa). (42 words)
Molefe Asante, quoted in Rodney Worrell, Pan-africanism in Barbados, (New Academia Publishing: 2005) p. 16 On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military. (35 words)
While some people think the activist lifestyle is an act and they might have a point, pan-Africanism and a strong belief system are part of Burna Boy’s values. (30 words)
Example sentences (14)
Let me begin with the spiritual awakening of Pan-Africanism as exemplified by Robert Nesta Marley OM, a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter.
He inspired independence movements across Africa and symbolised Pan-Africanism and progress.
Adopting PanAfricanism or simply Africanism as a policy is not new but it is time it is strongly pursued in politics, commerce, law, etc. in order to protect people of African origin (be it in Europe, Brazil, U.S., or in Africa).
Another central argument of this conception of pan-Africanism is that the ambition of the white race is the destruction of black genius and civilisation.
During the 70s when Africa was ridding itself from colonialism, Bob made an anthem that would call for its countries to join forces in Pan-Africanism.
Ulasi and Ogbo, both from the School of Communication, Texas Southern University, said the new West African Pilot News would revive the spirit of Zik and Pan Africanism.
What we are launching here today is Pan-Africanism at work in the service of the people of this continent.
While some people think the activist lifestyle is an act and they might have a point, pan-Africanism and a strong belief system are part of Burna Boy’s values.
He was also an influential advocate for Pan Africanism and the founder of the Convention People’s Party.
Molefe Asante, quoted in Rodney Worrell, Pan-africanism in Barbados, (New Academia Publishing: 2005) p. 16 On the other hand, many writers have pointed out how this battle was a humiliation for the Italian military.
Nkrumah actively promoted a policy of Pan-Africanism from the beginning of his Presidency.
Nkrumah's dedications to pan-africanism in action attracted these intellectuals to his Ghanaian projects.
Similarly, African, Africanize, and Africanism are not proper names, but are capitalized because Africa is a proper name.
This phenomenon causes a feeling of architecture attenuated by the low height of buildings in a combination of architectural Westernization and Africanism.
Common combinations with africanism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: