Definition of Afro-Asian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples. "Afro-Asian population"

Partainyms: Asia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Afro-Asian

Afrihili
Afrikaans
Afrikander
Afrikaner
Afrikanerdom
Afrikaners
Afrindian
Afro
Afro-
Afro-American
Afro-Americans
Afro-Argentine
Afro-Argentines
Afro-Argentinian
Afro-Argentinians
Afro-Asian (current term)
Afro-Caribbean
Afro-Caribbeans
Afro-Cuban
Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Indian
Afro-Seminole Creole
Afro-Usonian
Afro-pessimism
Afro hairdo
Afroasiatic
Afroasiatic language
Afrocarpus
Afrocarpus falcata

Literary usage of Afro-Asian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United Nations System: The Policies of Member States by Chadwick F. Alger, Gene Martin Lyons, John E. Trent (1995)
"... to a denunciation of French colonialism and the invocation of the Algerian situation.8 The NLF there marked its entrance into the Afro-Asian family and, ..."

2. The Cold War in Asia by Cold War International History Project (1996)
"First Ben Bella was overthrown in Algeria in June, leading the Afro-Asian movement to lean in a more pro-Soviet direction due to the influence of Nehru in ..."

3. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"... enormous attention in the region and in the capitals of the Western and Communist blocs, anxious about Afro-Asian attitudes towards their policies. ..."

4. The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade: A Record of Voyages by William T. Wawn (1893)
"Abel could not foresee the worldwide rejection of colonialism and white domination by Afro-Asian people, nor the danger that the white man's religion would ..."

5. Capital (1888)
"... in the implementation of human rights in the non-European countries, particularly the developing nations in the Afro-Asian regions and Latin America. ..."

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