Afropunk

English

Etymology

Afro- +‎ punk or Afro- +‎ -punk

Noun

Afropunk (uncountable)

  1. (music) Punk music or subculture with black African influences.
    • 2014, Zandria F. Robinson, This Ain't Chicago, page 139:
      […] women whom he feels his Afropunk musical tastes and skateboard transportation would otherwise drive away.
  2. (science fiction) Afrocentric science fiction.
    Coordinate term: Afrofuturism
    • 2018 October 4, Adam Roberts, “Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut”, in The Guardian‎:
      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.
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