When micronationalists from Ethiopia label Menelik II's expansion as colonialism and participation in the scramble for Africa, they are simply becoming systematic magicians, or to give them respect, systematic empiricists.1987, The Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact on the Politics of the Horn of Africa:
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One who runs, or otherwise participates in, a micronation.
micronationalist
adj
Etymology From micronational + -ist.
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Dated Of, or relating to a micronation; micronational.
But the Mataungan Association significantly enlarged the scale of anti–colonial protest as well, becoming what one writer has called a micronationalist phenomenon.1984, Peter J. Hempenstall, Noel Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific: