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Pan-African en · ADJ

Etymology

From pan- + African.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
    • The young men studying at your uncle’s mission used to speak French to each other both in delight and in order to show off their erudition, before the government declared that such erudition, and the Pan-African interaction it engendered, was unnecessary for natives and banished the language from their classrooms. 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 284:

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Pan-African en · NOUN

Etymology

From pan- + African.

Meanings

  1. A supporter of Pan-Africanism.

Forms

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