Meanings
plural Afropolitans
- A multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.
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.
2021, Anna-Leena Toivanen, Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures, page 172Synonyms: Afrocosmopolitan
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA multicultural, cosmopolitan African person.
Origin
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Afropolitan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropolitan
“Afropolitan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropolitan. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Afropolitan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Afropolitan.
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