Meanings
plural Africanjujuisms
- uncountableusuallyfantasyAn 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 Blog2 more examples
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 7Just like Africanfuturism, another term she coined for African science fiction, Africanjujuism comes out of a need to capture the uniqueness of what African writers are doing when they explore familiar genres like fantasy.
2021, Ainehi Edoro, “What is Africanjujuism?”, in Brittle Paper
Origin
Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.
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