Meaning of Africanjujuism | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable, usually

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level