zambianizehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zambianize_v%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZambianize, v.
Revised 2022

Zambianizeverb

  1. 1964–
    transitive. To make Zambian in character, composition, etc.; spec. to appoint a Zambian citizen to (a post, occupation, etc.) in place of a non-Zambian citizen, typically replacing a settler of European descent with a Zambian of African descent. Cf. Zambianization n.
    1. 1964
      The Government was trying to implement..the findings of a Royal Commission into the best means of localising the Civil Service.., preferring to ‘Zambianise’ rather than ‘Africanise’.
      News Letter (Inst. Race Relations) July 20
    2. 1980
      Mr Chafwa..asked Zambian and expatriate-owned travel agencies to explain why they have not Zambianized certain posts.
      BBC Summary of World Broadcasts (Nexis) 4 September
    3. 2019
      To bring an end to the tribal, regional and partisan division undermining unity as a nation we will Zambianise the mode of democracy.
      Zambian Eye (Nexis) 22 June

Originally published as part of the entry for Zambian, adj. & n.

Zambianize, v. was revised in June 2022.

Zambianize, v. was last modified in July 2023.