1. ‘The public services in South Africa have seen previous sweeping changes, following military and political victories; a significant phase of Africanization accompanied homeland self-government.’ ‘He writes, ‘When I came to the Island I found there was much debate about the Africanisation of the name of the Island, Robben Island.’’

2. ‘The public services in South Africa have seen previous sweeping changes, following military and political victories; a significant phase of Africanization accompanied homeland self-government.’ ‘He writes, ‘When I came to the Island I found there was much debate about the Africanisation of the name of the Island, Robben Island.’’

3. If, in the eighteenth century, the concept of race resulted from what Ali Mazrui calls "the dis-Africanisation of the diaspora," 6 then the racialization of African peoples involved not only a dis-Africanizing but an un-Americanizing as well, 7 all of which bears directly on Wheatley's situation in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution.