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Azania may refer to:
Places
edit- Azania, a historical region in East Africa
- Azania (Greece), a historical region of ancient Arcadia, Greece
- Azania (Somalia), an autonomous region in southern Somalia; incumbent name of the former Jubaland region
- Azania, a microcontinent that consisted of parts of modern Madagascar, East Africa, Arabia and south India
- Azania, proposed name for South Africa
- Azania, rejected name for South Sudan
Fiction
edit- Azania, a fictional island in Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief
- Azania, a black-ruled South Africa extending far northwards in Bruce Sterling's novel Islands in the Net
- Azania, a new name for South Africa in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy of novels
- Azania, a province in the novels Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes
People
edit- Malcolm Azania (born 1969), Canadian teacher, writer, community activist
- Azania Stewart (born 1989), British basketball player
Other uses
edit- Azania Bank, a commercial bank in Tanzania
- Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa
- "Azania (Soon Come)", a song by New Zealand reggae group Herbs
See also
edit- Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, a South African liberation movement
- Socialist Party of Azania, a Trotskyist, pan-Africanist political party in South Africa
- Azania Liberation Front, an armed faction in the First Sudanese Civil War