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Afrocosmopolitan en · NOUN

Etymology

From Afro- + cosmopolitan.

Meanings

1. Synonym of Afropolitan.
   • This was primarily a jibe at the atavistic cultural separatism underpinning apartheid which, among other things, defined itself against the urban, Afrocosmopolitan modernity the Voice championed." Yet, as the editors pointed out,[…] 2017, Peter D. McDonald, Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174:
   • Coined by Taiye Selasi (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2007), the term refers to an Afrocosmopolitan ethos of transcending national differences to forge multiracial communities. Fostered by recent histories of migration and globalization as[…] 2018 July 27, Gerard Delanty, Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies: 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • As Austerlitz says, their music was “gutbucket and sophisticated,” quintessentially Afrocosmopolitan. Machito and Bauzá were heavily influenced by the innovations of Arsenio Rodriguez, and brought the conga drum and clave to the fore in[…] 2016 June 16, Njoroge Njoroge, Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:

Forms

Synonyms

Afropolitan