Afrocentric
Adjective
Meaning
Afrocentric (comparative more Afrocentric, superlative most Afrocentric)
Focusing on black African people.
Examples
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Dr. David Hinds constantly argues from an Afrocentric viewpoint and has never rejected his mentor’s Mr. Kwayana’s call for partition.
Micaiah Carter said that his photograph of a woman in a white bandeau and fringed denim skirt was strongly influenced by his mother’s style in the 1990s, an amalgam of minimalist and urban influences with an Afrocentric overlay.
This can mean literally moving to Ethiopia but also refers to mentally and emotionally repatriating before the physical. citation citation Some Rastafari also embrace various Afrocentric and Pan-African social and political aspirations.
The Discipline of Africana Studies focuses on critical study from an Afrocentric or African-centered perspective, while retaining a respect for and openness to the multicultural character and instructive value of the total human experience.
Looking back at the late eighties in Rolling Stone in 1997, Ed Moralez describes Rakim as "the new-school MC of the moment, using a smooth baritone to become the jazz soloist of mystic Afrocentric rap."