Afropolitan

English

Etymology

From Afro- +‎ (cosmo)politan.

Noun

Afropolitan (plural Afropolitans)

1. A multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.

   Synonym: Afrocosmopolitan

   • 2021, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, page 172:

     Rather, abjection is revealing of the processes of exclusion that are central in the making of non-abject – in this case, white European or privileged Afropolitan – subjectivities.

Derived terms

• Afropolitanism