Afropunk

English

Etymology

Afro- +‎ punk or Afro- +‎ -punk

Noun

Afropunk (uncountable)

1. (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.

2. (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.