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Afrophobia

Afrophobia noun: fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants.

Noun

Afrophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants.
    • Individuals who suffer from Afrophobia often avoid facing this fear by ignoring Africa, its culture, and its people.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) https://web.archive.org/web/20000816215306/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/int/980330/africa.good_will_bill.at20.html
      The Somalia debacle prompted a fresh bout of Afrophobia in Washington.

Afrophobia meaning in Tamil and Kannada

Afrophobia in Tamil

ஆப்பிரிக்க வெருளி

Afrophobia in Kannada

ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾದವರ ಬಗೆಗಿನ ಅಂಜಿಕೆ

Origin of Afrophobia

From Afro- + -phobia.

Questions about Afrophobia

What does Afrophobia mean?
Afrophobia means fear, hate, or dislike of Africans and African descendants.
What is Afrophobia in Tamil?
Afrophobia in Tamil is ஆப்பிரிக்க வெருளி. See Afrophobia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Afrophobia?
Afrophobia is a noun.

Words near Afrophobia in the dictionary

  1. Afrophiles
  2. Afrophilia
  3. Afrophilic
  4. Afrophobe
  5. Afrophobes
  6. Afrophobia
  7. Afrophobic
  8. Afrophone
  9. afropithecine
  10. afropithecines
  11. Afropolitan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afrophobia (page history and authors); Afrophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); afrophobia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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