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Afrocosmopolitan

noun

Etymology

From Afro- + cosmopolitan.

  1. derived from κόσμος — “world”
  2. derived from κοσμοπολίτης — “citizen of the world”
  3. derived from cosmopolītēs
  4. borrowed from cosmopolite
  5. suffixed as cosmopolitan — “cosmopolite + an”
  6. prefixed as afrocosmopolitan — “Afro + cosmopolitan”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Afropolitan.

    • 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[…]
    • 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,[…]
    • 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[…]

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