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Afrocosmopolitan
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English
Etymology
From en Afro cosmopolitan.
Noun
en Afropolitan.
en 2016-06-16 Njoroge Njoroge Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean Univ. Press of Mississippi 9781496806901 As Austerlitz says, their music was “gutbucket and sophisticated,” quintessentially Afrocosmopolitan. Machito and Bauzá were heavily influenced by the innovations of Arsenio Rodriguez, and brought the conga drum and clave to the fore in
en 2017 Peter D. McDonald Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing Oxford University Press 9780198725152 174 This was primarily a jibe at the atavistic cultural separatism underpinning apartheid which, among other things, defined itself against the urban, Afrocosmopolitan modernity the Voice championed." Yet, as the editors pointed out,
en 2018-07-27 Gerard Delanty Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies: 2nd edition Routledge 9781351028882 Coined by Taiye Selasi (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2007), the term refers to an Afrocosmopolitan ethos of transcending national differences to forge multiracial communities. Fostered by recent histories of migration and globalization as