Afro-Asian

American  

[af-roh-ey-zhuhn, -shuhn] / ˈæf roʊˈeɪ ʒən, -ʃən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the nations of Africa and Asia or their peoples.

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Afro-Asian British  

adjective

1. of or relating to both Africa and Asia, esp as part of the Third World

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Etymology

Origin of Afro-Asian

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Highlights included a very pregnant Beyoncé, all golden, a kind of Afro-Asian space empress, surrounded by flowing waves of dancers, tipping back in a chair so far it made you say, “Hey, the baby.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2017

Sixty years ago, representatives from 29 Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia, for the “Conference of Afro-Asian Peoples,” known more colloquially as the Bandung Conference.

From Time • Aug. 26, 2015

In Cairo, he hangs out with African-American jazz aficionados who are trying to create a “progressive” Afro-Asian genre to counter what’s being broadcast by the State Department.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2015

Many of the new Afro-Asian nations, which now made up nearly half of the Assembly membership, were widely written off as automatic Communist allies.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the first time any human had managed to leave the Afro-Asian ecological system—indeed, the first time any large terrestrial mammal had managed to cross from Afro-Asia to Australia.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari