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Africanjujuism en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
   • Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative. 2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:
   • Last but not least, the choice of Afrofuturism in this article rather than Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism is also a pragmatic one—there simply exist more scholarly analyses to draw upon. 2021, Aisha P. L. Kadiri, “Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?”, in Internet Policy Review, volume 10, number 4, →DOI, page 7:
   • Just like Africanfuturism, another term she coined for African science fiction, Africanjujuism comes out of a need to capture the uniqueness of what African writers are doing when they explore familiar genres like fantasy. 2021, Ainehi Edoro, “What is Africanjujuism?”, in Brittle Paper:

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Africanfuturism