Pan-Africanism

noun

Pan-Af·ri·can·ism ˌpan-ˈa-fri-kə-ˌni-zəm

: a movement for the political union of all the African nations

Pan-African

ˌpan-ˈa-fri-kən

adjective

Pan-Africanist

ˌpan-ˈa-fri-kə-nist

noun or adjective

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1930, in the meaning defined above

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