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- proper noun The notion that the future of
Africa is bleak because of the multitude of problems faced by the continent.
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Examples
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But there is a real chance Afro-pessimism is finally giving way to Afro-optimism.
Catching Africa's Investment Bug Is Proving Contagious Matthew Curtin 2010
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I raise the issue of the stadium's incomparable beauty because South African politicians in support of the World Cup accuse detractors of what they call "Afro-pessimism."
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It was the worst possible timing for World Cup organisers, who have faced years of "Afro-pessimism" about their ability to stage the world's biggest sporting event.
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Afro-pessimism spiked, with a prophet of doom in the unlikely shape of then Hull City manager Phil Brown questioning whether South Africa was up to the job.
World Cup 2010: Sceptics drowned out by another rainbow nation miracle 2010
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I raise the issue of the stadium's incomparable beauty because South African politicians in support of the World Cup accuse detractors of what they call "Afro-pessimism."
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Much of what we know about Africa is largely informed by popular media steeped in Afro-pessimism.
ANC Today 2008
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Tangiers: A new proposal from South-South Cooperation yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Tangiers: A new proposal from South-South Cooperation'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Moroccan diplomacy defends a strategy of active solidarity in Africa to \'\'reject the logic of \'Afro-pessimism\' suggesting that they should project imaginative action to encourages consolidation of a New Africa, \'\ 'as stated by King Mohammed VI in his message to the forum.'
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Moroccan diplomacy defends a strategy of active solidarity in Africa to '' reject the logic of 'Afro-pessimism' suggesting that they should project imaginative action to encourages consolidation of a New Africa, '' as stated by King Mohammed VI in his message to the forum.
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Much of what we know about Africa is largely informed by popular media steeped in Afro-pessimism.
ANC Today 2008
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There might also be a touch of emerging market and Afro-pessimism involved, while traders would also have feared a repeat of the 2001/02 rand blowout he said.
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This is, of course, similar to the charge often leveled against Afro-pessimism, a school of thought that takes antiblackness to be the transhistorical structuring force of the world.
On Heteropessimism Asa Seresin 2019
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