Africanfuturisms

Noun

Africanfuturism (usually uncountable, plural Africanfuturisms)

1. (Africa, neologism, usually) 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.
   • Africanfuturism is similar to “Afrofuturism” in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and...2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog