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Africanist may refer to:
- Africanist (Spain), people who encouraged a strong involvement of the Kingdom of Spain in Colonial Africa
- A specialist in African studies
- Pan-Africanism, aims to encourage solidarity among people of African descent
- A strand of African nationalism and activism against apartheid in South Africa associated with the Pan Africanist Congress
- A literary theory developed by author and critic Toni Morrison in her book Playing in the Dark