Africanjujuism
Africanjujuism noun: an Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
Noun
Africanjujuism (usually uncountable, plural Africanjujuisms)
- An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
- Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog
- 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, Aisha P. L. Kadiri, “Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?”, in Internet Policy Review, volume 10, number 4, →DOI, page 7
Forms of Africanjujuism
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Origin of Africanjujuism
Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.
Questions about Africanjujuism
- What does Africanjujuism mean?
- Africanjujuism means an Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
- What part of speech is Africanjujuism?
- Africanjujuism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Africanjujuism?
- The plural of Africanjujuism is Africanjujuisms.
Words near Africanjujuism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Africanjujuism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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