Af·ro-Ca·rib·be·an | \ ˌa-frō-ˌker-ə-ˈbē-ən 
, -ˌka-rə-, -kə-ˈri-bē-ən \
, -ˌka-rə-, -kə-ˈri-bē-ən \ plural Afro-Caribbeans
Definition of Afro-Caribbean
: a person of African descent born or living in a Caribbean nation
In Louisiana, the Acadians reestablished their culture and absorbed other ethnic groups around them—French Creoles, Germans, Americans, and Afro-Caribbeans—to form a society called Cajun, which, of course, is a corruption of Acadian.— Hugh Merrill, The Blues Route, 1990
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The first known use of Afro-Caribbean was in 1959
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