Azania (disambiguation)

Azania may refer to:

Places

• 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
• Azania, a new name for the Central African Republic

Fiction

• 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

• Malcolm Azania (born 1969), Canadian teacher, writer, community activist
• Azania Stewart (born 1989), British basketball player

Other uses

• 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

• 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