Afropunk

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noun

Punk music or subculture with black African influences.

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Meanings

nounAfropunk (uncountable)
  1. uncountableentertainmentPunk 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. uncountableliteratureAfrocentric 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

Origin

From Afro- + punk or Afro- + -punk.

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APA

Afropunk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropunk

MLA

“Afropunk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropunk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Afropunk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropunk.

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