Africanjujuism
English
Etymology
Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2018, from African + jujuism.
Noun
Africanjujuism (usually uncountable, plural Africanjujuisms)
- An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies.
- 2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:
- Africanjujuism is a subcategory of fantasy that respectfully acknowledges the seamless blend of true existing African spiritualities and cosmologies with the imaginative.
- 2021, Aisha P. L. Kadiri, “Data and Afrofuturism: an emancipated subject?”, in Internet Policy Review, volume 10, number 4, DOI:, page 7:
- 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, Ainehi Edoro, “What is Africanjujuism?”, in Brittle Paper:
- 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.
See also
- Africanfuturism