pan-ˈAfrican, a.
[pan- 1.]
All-African; of or pertaining to all persons of African birth or descent; of, pertaining to, or comprising all the peoples of Africa generally.
| 1900 Daily News 16 July 7/5 A pan-African Conference will be held at the Westminster Town Hall on July 23,..and will be attended and addressed by those of African descent from all parts of the British Empire, the United States of America, Abyssinia, Liberia, Hayti, &c. Ibid. 26 July 4/4 A permanent Pan-African Association was formed to protect the rights and aid the development of Africans and their descendants throughout the world. 1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 132 Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia,..foreshadowed a possible Pan-African Council to coordinate problems common to African countries. 1955 [see next]. 1960 Times 29 Sept. (Nigeria Suppl.) p. xii/2 Dr. Nkrumah's pan-African way of thinking. 1962 Listener 25 Jan. 157/1 The Ghana Government has also tried to promote pan-African schemes of unity. 1967 Freedomways VII. 174 It is only by planning along Pan-African lines ourselves can Africa hope to free herself. 1973 Caribbean Contact Feb. 16/2 Garvey's views in the 1920's already foreshadow the later Pan African movement. 1975 C. E. Griffith Afr. Dream viii. 105 The pan-African advocate was disturbed by contemporary works which assigned Africans last place among the three major races of the world. |
So pan-Afriˈcander a. [pan- 1], of or belonging to all Africanders, or of a government or state which should include all South Africans of Dutch descent or sympathies. Hence pan-Afriˈcanderdom (see -dom).
| 1884 Manch. Guard. 26 Sept. 5/2 An imaginary deep-laid scheme..a Pan-Teutonic or Pan-Africander combination against the British power in South Africa. 1899 T. Schreiner in Daily News 29 Nov. 6/6 Their dream of a Pan-Africander Republic. 1900 Ibid. 12 June 3/4 He never pretended to hide his ideal of Pan-Afrikanderdom under its own flag. |