From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishAfroAf‧ro /ˈæfrəʊ $ -roʊ/ noun [countable] DCBa hairstyle popular with black people in the 1970s in which the hair is cut into a large round shape
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Afro• I used to wear an Afro.• She was tall and slim with a huge curly Afro like a crown above her smooth sharp-boned ebony face.• So off I went to Rutgers Law, a little black lady with a huge Afro.Afro-Afro- /æfrəʊ $ -roʊ/ prefix [in nouns and adjectives] SANAfrican and something else an Afro-American Afro-Caribbean childrenExamples from the Corpus
Afro-• Afro-Cuban musicOrigin Afro (1900-2000) Probably from Afro-American Afro- Latin Afer “African” 