Afro-pessimism

noun

1. the belief that the provision of aid to African countries is futile

Example Sentences

After Patterson, some scholars associated with Afro-pessimism began to invoke social death somewhat differently as a condition that negates free will, agency and meaningful political action, and expanded its premises to describe the condition of current African Americans.

From Salon

This is a book rooted less in pulp than in Afro-pessimism.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s a spectrum with everything from Afro-pessimism to “The Black future is in joy.”

From Los Angeles Times

"The lack of safety strikes me as another version of Afro-pessimism that we've heard for a long time," he says, pointing to the thousands of African Americans who now travel to south-western Nigeria every year for the famous Yoruba Osun Osogbo festival.

From BBC

Here, I’m playing off the school of thought known as Afro-pessimism, which holds that Black lives are endlessly inflected and informed by anti-Black animosity and experiences of pain and loss.

From Washington Post