Maafa

maafa English Etymology en :bor sw:maafa 1 From en sw maafa disaster, catastrophe. Coined in 1994 by Marimba Ani (in Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora) on the model of the Hebrew-derived designation en Shoah of the Jewish Holocaust. Noun - en Afrocentrism The history of slavery and anti-black racism and discrimination in the United States; the historical enslavement of Africans and associated atrocities, under the interpretation of these as a genocide against them. 2003, Out of the revolution: the development of Africana studies (edited by Aldridge and Young; published by Lexington Books), page 250: The Maafa concept explains the conditions of disorganization, disunity, self-hatred, and alienation affecting African people to varying degrees. en Racism