Afrocrat

English

Alternative forms

• afrocrat

Etymology

Blend of Africa +‎ Eurocrat.

Noun

Afrocrat (plural Afrocrats)

1. (slang) An employee or minister of the AU Commission or a similar Pan-African organization.
   • 1972, Europe and the Maghreb, page 15:

     Losing its former political leaders, it re-embodied itself in the team of "Afrocrats” associated with the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA ) .

   • 2011, Moeletsi Mbeki, Advocates for Change: How to Overcome Africa's Challenges:

     However, as the case of Europe suggests, Africa's own 'Afrocrats' can play an important role by providing the knowledge base for political decisions .

   • 2024, Adeoye O. Akinola, ‎Jesper Bjarnesen, Worlds Apart?: Perspectives on Africa–EU Migration, page 1989:

     On the other hand, Eurocrats in Brussels have often complained about a lack of timely response to their proposals by their Afrocrat counterparts in the poorly capacitated AU Commission in Addis Ababa.

   • 2024, Francis Mangeni, ‎Andrew Mold, Borderless Africa, page 50:

     He rhetorically asked whether a cadre of 'Afrocrats' (i.e. technocrats who are competent and driven by a Pan-African vision) existed and, if so, what motivated them?