African vs Afrophobia - What's the difference?
african | afrophobia |
Of or pertaining to Africa.
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
* 2007 , African Immigrant Religions in America (ISBN 0814762409):
Fear, hate, or dislike of Black Africans and Black African descendant.
* 1986 , Carlton W. Molette, Barbara J. Molette, Black Theatre: premise and presentation , page 35
* 1998' (Mar 30), Christopher Ogden, "Good Will Bill", ''Time'' ' 151 (13) [http://web.archive.org/web/20000816215306/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980330/africa.good_will_bill.at20.html]
african
English
Alternative forms
* AfricAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* African elephant * African hemp * African marigold * African oak * African penguin * African teak * African violet * North African * South AfricanHyponyms
* Maghrebi * Congolese * Ethiopian * Ugandan * Zimbabwean * MozambicanNoun
(en noun)- Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
Hyponyms
* sub-Saharan, MaghrebiDerived terms
* AfricanismAnagrams
*afrophobia
English
Noun
(-)- Individuals who suffer from Afrophobia often avoid facing this fear by ignoring Africa, its culture, and its people.
- The Somalia debacle prompted a fresh bout of Afrophobia in Washington.