Editing Africanization (section)

{{Short description|Making something African}}
{{hatnote|Africanization can also refer to [[Africanized bee|Africanized "killer" bees]].}}

'''Africanization''' or '''Africanisation''' (lit., making something African) has been applied in various contexts, notably in geographic and personal naming and in the composition of the civil service via processes such as [[indigenization]].<ref>African Successes Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development David K. Leonard UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS</ref>