Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

africanjujuism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: african-ju-juism
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative."
"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."
"Just 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."

Etymology

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

Africanjujuisms (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Africanfuturism

Questions

What does africanjujuism mean?: An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
Where does africanjujuism come from?: Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.

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