Afrocentricadj.
/ˌafrəʊˈsɛntrɪk/, U.S. /ˌæfroʊˈsɛntrɪk/ Originally and chiefly U.S.
Centred or focusing on Africa or on cultures of African origin, esp. North American black culture. Cf. Eurocentric adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [adjective]
African1703
pan-African1899
Africanistic1904
Afrikan1929
Afrocentric1992
1966 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Nov. 1001/4 The approach of all these historians is Afrocentric.
1967 Freedomways 7 ii. 170/2 Our Eurocentric, rather than Afrocentric, conclusions.
1970 Black World Oct. 10/1 On university campuses..they are demanding that their history be looked at from a black perspective or from an Afrocentric point of view.
1988 Indian Bookworm's Jrnl. Summer 7/2 This Afro-centric view has caused Indo-Caribbean studies to be marginalised.
1992 Ebony Mar. 120/2 I've always thought of myself as an enlightened, Afrocentric person who considered all Black people beautiful.
2009 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 58/2 It was the mid-'90s, and all of us sported some measure of black pride—be it Afrocentric or ghettocentric.
Derivatives
Afrocenˈtricity n.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [noun] > quality or character
Africanism1759
Africanness1889
Africanity1962
Afrocentricity1971
Afrocentrism1972
1971 Eng. Hist. Rev. 86 196 Most subtle African history is still being written in circles not hamstrung by the Afrocentricity cult.
1989 Washington Post 7 Feb. b3/4 The importance of Afro-centricity is that it begins to let us know that we, as black Americans, are normal in the context of African people.
2010 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 27 Aug. (Daily Break section) e1 A period of seemingly fearless artistic exploration in which the music, dances and fashions embraced elements of Afrocentricity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1966