1938 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 5 Mar. 2/2 The contests this year may turn on the reactions of those who are American citizens of Afro descent.

1949 Billboard 19 Feb. 110/2 The tricky afro rhythm will attract the dancers.

1968 N.Y. Times 24 May 30/1 The huts proclaim ‘Love Yes, Love Now’,..‘Afro Ballroom’, ‘Leo's Casino’, [etc.].

1969 Sunday Times 9 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 40/1 In clothes, Afro styling seems to be taking hold among blacks all over New York.

1970 A. D. Miller in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 539 Few..will doubt that the American sense of music is of Afro origin.

1971 Community (E. Afr. Community) Apr. 6/1 The air hostesses will be provided with aprons—an attractive afro design in two colours (beige and brown).

1984 Washington Post 6 Sept. b11 America's last great regional rock tradition—a jubilant party mix of the best Afro, Latin, Caribbean and Anglo spirits—faces extinction.

2005 TNT Mag. 7 Mar. 76/4 (advt.,) Embrace the sounds of neo-soul mixed with the finest in jazz funk, Afro beats, souls and funk.

1966 T. Pynchon in N.Y. Times Mag. 12 June 82 The same goes for boys who like to wear..Afro haircuts.

1969 A. Young in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 367 You need real color..nappy snaggly afro hair.

1971 Sunday Nation (Nairobi) 11 Apr. 6/2 Tiny transistor tape-recorders which the girls used to carry in their gigantic Afro-wigs.

1984 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. i. 11/1 A comb used for Afro haircuts.

1997 K. Williamson Heart of Bass in S. Champion Disco Biscuits 111 Streamer had this corkscrew afro perm tumbling down around his shoulders.

2010 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 21 Dec. 9 She was of stocky build and had Afro hair.

2011 Weekly Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 19 May 10/1 With my booming afro hair-style and charisma, I was tailor-made to fit the role.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §385/14 Negro, Afro, black bean, [etc.].

1969 Life 25 July 36 Do you say ‘Negroes’, ‘Blacks’, ‘Afros’?

1970 A. D. Miller in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 539 The writing aimed at the heart and life of the country [sc. the U.S.A.] is coming increasingly from Afros.

1972 Observer 13 Aug. 7/2 The ‘Afros’ wear clenched-fist or Angela Davis badges.

1996 T. Shannon & C. Morgan Invisible Crying Tree iv. 140 I like to see the afros playing soccer.

1949 Billboard 24 Sept. 114/2 Ya Llego (afro): Fine chanting in the Valdez tradition, and with tantalizing tempo.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xix. 248 The clavé rhythm..occurs in practically all Cuban music including the Afro, the Bolero, the Guaracha,..and so on.

1958 E. Borneman in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 270 The music of the Machito band..boiled down to two types: (1) Afros, rumbas, guarachas, congas, sones and boleros, with jazz trumpets, jazz tenor and alto-saxophones improvising against the Cuban rhythms; [etc.].

2007 J. Powell Tito Puente iv. 76 The extra numbers were popular hits by Cuban composers such as Gilberto Valdes, who was noted for his diversity, ranging from the charanga to heavy percussive-driven Afros.

1967 Jet 20 July 60 He told me to cut my hair, go natural with an Afro and shed my false lashes.

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 221 A black man with a thick full beard, wearing a spiky Afro like a dangerous plant on his head.

1974 K. Millett Flying (1975) ii. 194 Lila..has been to the hairdresser and got herself a Jewish afro.

1984 Washington Post 19 Aug. k1/3 A young architect with..the biggest Afro this side of the Niger river.

1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 24/4 Sideshow Bob's hair evolves from a huge red afro.

2000 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. e13/5 Shapiro (Adam Goldberg) is a hustling talent agent from the Valley with a white-boy Afro that suggests a Chia pet on steroids.

1971 Times 30 Sept. p. vii/4 The latest craze is called Afro-beat and was brought from Nigeria by a young man called Fella [sic] Ransome-Kuti.

1995 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 7 July 54 Femi Kuti fronts a powerful amalgam of James Brown-style funk and Nigerian roots dubbed Afrobeat.

2002 P. McAuley Whole Wide World (2003) ii. 23 We grooved on afrobeat, jazz soul, and funk, nerved each other to chat up impossibly glamorous girls.

1954 Melody Maker 20 Mar. 4/1 Let us, for lack of a better word, call it ‘Afro-Jazz’.

1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xxi. 265 Ellington distinguished himself with two of the best Afro-jazz numbers of his career.

1972 Ebony Oct. 7 She studies dance in her leisure time and is particularly interested in Afro-jazz dancing.

1990 Folk Roots Aug. 7/3 There's an African Music Festival taking place in Delft..featuring pop, folk, Afro-jazz and swing bands from Holland and abroad.

2006 fRoots Mar. 37/1 In Senegal, Cheikh Lô is varyingly regarded as a folk, Afro-jazz or variété artist.

1974 Billboard 15 June 48/3 African trumpeter/vocalist adds two members of the Crusaders for a tight, commercial Afro-pop sound.

1992 Down Beat Feb. 36/2 The music's vital essence cuts through the sugarcoating, but Afropop, inspired by salsa, soul, and calypso, is readily accessible straight-up.

2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 26 June l4 Fans..of Senegal's Youssou N'Dour love his fearless Afropop, whether the pop half of the equation is hip-hop or doo-wop.

1969 Washington Post 31 July c3 Diane Toliver, Afroed and strikingly pretty.

1995 Mojo Jan. 29/1 An afro'd rock god.

2002 New Yorker 14 Oct. 44/3 Grainy black-and-white shots of empty hotel hallways, unabashedly Afroed pedestrians.