Afropunk
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Afro- + punk or Afro- + -punk.
Noun
[edit]Afropunk (uncountable)
- (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.
- (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[1]:
- 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.