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Africanfuturism

noun

Etymology

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, from African + futurism.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻
  2. derived from futūrus
  3. derived from futur
  4. inherited from future
  5. suffixed as futurism — “future + ism”
  6. compounded as africanfuturism — “African + futurism”

Definitions

  1. An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and…

    An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying particular attention to African culture, history and mythology, and African perspectives, rather than those of the African diaspora in the western world.

    • Thompson’s Africanfuturism is both queer and decolonial at the same time, necessitating an approach to embodiment that does not look like white, Western performative queerness

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