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Afropunk en · NOUN

Etymology

From Afro- + punk or Afro- + -punk.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Punk music or subculture with black African influences.
    • […] women whom he feels his Afropunk musical tastes and skateboard transportation would otherwise drive away. 2014, Zandria F. Robinson, This Ain't Chicago, page 139:
  2. (uncountable) Afrocentric science fiction.
    • There’s a lot going on in this novel, but Thompson expertly juggles all his disparate elements – alien encounter, cyberpunk-biopunk-Afropunk thriller, zombie-shocker, an off-kilter love story and an atmospheric portrait of a futuristic Nigeria. 2018 October 4, Adam Roberts, “Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut”, in The Guardian:

Coordinates

Afrofuturism