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Afro-punk

Afro-punk is the alternative form of Afropunk.

Meaning of Afropunk

Noun

Afropunk (uncountable)

  1. Punk music or subculture with black African influences.
    • […] women whom he feels his Afropunk musical tastes and skateboard transportation would otherwise drive away.2014, Zandria F. Robinson, This Ain't Chicago, page 139
  2. Afrocentric science fiction.
    • 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.2018 October 4, Adam Roberts, “Rosewater by Tade Thompson review – a stellar SF debut”, in The Guardian

Questions about Afro-punk

What is Afro-punk the alternative form of?
Afro-punk is the alternative form of Afropunk.

Words near Afro-punk in the dictionary

  1. Afro-Palestinian
  2. Afro-Peruvian
  3. Afro-pessimism
  4. Afro-pessimist
  5. Afro-pessimists
  6. Afro-punk
  7. Afro-rock
  8. Afro-Russian
  9. Afro-Russians
  10. Afro-Seminole Creole
  11. Afro-textured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afro-punk (page history and authors); Afropunk (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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