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An act or the process of replacing the European or white staff with black people from a certain continent; Also: An act or instance of bringing under the influence of or adapting to the needs of black people from a certain continent.

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  • The most controversial aspect of the project is the degree of Africanization.
  • Is the present trend of the South-Africanization of Israel an erosion of Zionist values or their logical consequence?
  • Land reform, Africanization policies and brutal repression have reduced a country that was once described as the "breadbasket of Africa" to a basket case.
  • Yeah, there are some superficial resemblances in the minds of rightist crackpots – the land distribution thing first and formost, but “Africanization”?
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