Usually means: Adopt or adapt to African characteristics.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word africanize:

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  1. Africanize: Merriam-Webster
  2. Africanize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Africanize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Africanize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Africanize: Wordnik
  6. Africanize: Wiktionary
  7. Africanize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Africanize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Africanize: Dictionary.com
  10. Africanize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. africanize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Africanize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. africanize: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Africanize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Africanize: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Africanize)

▸ verb:  (transitive, American spelling) To make African.

Similar:
Ghanaianize, Kenyanize, Amerindianize, Ethiopianize, Nigerianize, Egyptianize, Haitianize, negroize, ebonify, Arabicize, more...

Opposite:
de-africanize, westernize, europeanize

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Similar:
Ghanaianize, Kenyanize, Amerindianize, Ethiopianize, Nigerianize, Egyptianize, Haitianize, negroize, ebonify, Arabicize, more...

Opposite:
de-africanize, westernize, europeanize



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