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"African" As an adjective

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 http://www.thisisafrica.me/opinion/detail/19481/who-is-african
-On Afrikaan see for example
+On [[Afrikaan]] see for example
 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Afrikaan

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 == "African" as an adjective ==
 It literally means "of [[Africa]]", in the sense of belonging to and arising from [[Africa]]. However the term is somewhat fraught, and it can really only be used with assurance in very general terms, for applying the adjective to any ''specific'' cultural, economic, political, scientific  or social activity is virtually impossible given the size and demographic and cultural diversity of the continent.  Indeed, a natural question often asked (e.g. by [[Kole Omotoso]] and many others), is:  "What ''Africa'' are you talking about?"
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 http://www.thisisafrica.me/opinion/detail/19481/who-is-african
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	Lynnette Johns "Who is an African?" in [[IOL News]], August 20 2007 at 09:21am		Lynnette Johns "Who is an African?" in [[IOL News]], August 20 2007 at 09:21am

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	Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]		Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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 == "African" and "Africanness" as nouns ==
-Normally "an [[African]]" is used to refer to "a person from [[Africa]]". However, this has recently become a most difficult and much debated term, particularly in [[South Africa]] and some of the other former colonies, and is even being challenged by the African Genome Project (Jones, 2007).
+Normally "an [[African]]" is used to refer to "a person from [[Africa]]". However, this has recently become a most difficult and much debated term, particularly in [[South Africa]] and some of the other former colonies, and is even being challenged by the African Genome Project (Wilmot James, in Johns, 2007).
 The key debate concerns the defining characteristics required of an [[African]] person, or of the quality of [[Africanness]], a problem well summarized by some questions posed by  Jideofor Adibe: "Are White South Africans really Africans? Are Moroccans, Egyptians and other Arab Africans as much Africans as say, Nigerians or Ghanaians? Is Barrack Obama an African? Do all categorised as African or as having an African pedigree perceive themselves as such? Are all who perceive themselves as Africans accepted as such? Are there levels of "African-ness", and are some more African than others? Who allots this African-ness, and why? How does African identity interface with other levels of identity and citizenship in Africa? In short, how is the African identity constructed in the face of the mosaic of identities that people of African ancestry living within and beyond the continent bear?." (Adibe, 2009)[http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8639.htm]

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		+	Lynnette Johns "Who is an African?" in [[IOL News]], August 20 2007 at 09:21am
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	Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]		Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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 (See also points made under [[Africa]] and [[African theatre]])
-== "African" and "Africanness"s as nouns ==
+== "African" and "Africanness" as nouns ==
 Normally "an [[African]]" is used to refer to "a person from [[Africa]]". However, this has recently become a most difficult and much debated term, particularly in [[South Africa]] and some of the other former colonies.

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 (See also points made under [[Africa]] and [[African theatre]])
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+== "African" and "Africanness"s as nouns ==
 Normally "an [[African]]" is used to refer to "a person from [[Africa]]". However, this has recently become a most difficult and much debated term, particularly in [[South Africa]] and some of the other former colonies.
-The key debate concerns the defining characteristics required of an [[African]] person, a problem well summarized by some questions posed by  Jideofor Adibe: "Are White South Africans really Africans? Are Moroccans, Egyptians and other Arab Africans as much Africans as say, Nigerians or Ghanaians? Is Barrack Obama an African? Do all categorised as African or as having an African pedigree perceive themselves as such? Are all who perceive themselves as Africans accepted as such? Are there levels of "African-ness", and are some more African than others? Who allots this African-ness, and why? How does African identity interface with other levels of identity and citizenship in Africa? In short, how is the African identity constructed in the face of the mosaic of identities that people of African ancestry living within and beyond the continent bear?." (Adibe, 2009)[http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8639.htm]
+The key debate concerns the defining characteristics required of an [[African]] person, or of the quality of [[Africanness]], a problem well summarized by some questions posed by  Jideofor Adibe: "Are White South Africans really Africans? Are Moroccans, Egyptians and other Arab Africans as much Africans as say, Nigerians or Ghanaians? Is Barrack Obama an African? Do all categorised as African or as having an African pedigree perceive themselves as such? Are all who perceive themselves as Africans accepted as such? Are there levels of "African-ness", and are some more African than others? Who allots this African-ness, and why? How does African identity interface with other levels of identity and citizenship in Africa? In short, how is the African identity constructed in the face of the mosaic of identities that people of African ancestry living within and beyond the continent bear?." (Adibe, 2009)[http://www.gamji.com/article8000/NEWS8639.htm]
-For more on this matter, see for example debates in:
+For more on these matters, see for example debates in:
 Jideofor Adibe (ed..) ''Who is an African? Identity, Citizenship and the Making of the Africa-Nation''. London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2009. (See the Adonis & Abbey website[http://www.adonisandabbey.com/book_detail.php?bookid=105&currency])