Africanjujuism

English

Etymology

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African +‎ jujuism.

Noun

Africanjujuism (usually uncountable, plural Africanjujuisms)

1. (fantasy) An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
   • 2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog‎^[1]:

     Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.

   • 2021, Aisha P. L. Kadiri, “Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?”, in Internet Policy Review, volume 10, number 4, →DOI, page 7:

     Last but not least, the choice of Afrofuturism in this article rather than Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism is also a pragmatic one—there simply exist more scholarly analyses to draw upon.

   • 2021, Ainehi Edoro, “What is Africanjujuism?”, in Brittle Paper‎^[2]:

     Just like Africanfuturism, another term she coined for African science fiction, Africanjujuism comes out of a need to capture the uniqueness of what African writers are doing when they explore familiar genres like fantasy.

See also

• Africanfuturism