Sunday Poem: The Writing on the Wall
‘Wogs out’ the graffiti sprayed In those Bedfordshire days That led me to question With what affection was my sort held? Signed ‘NF’…
Featured
In Liminal Space Part 4
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews focusing on the liminality of the mixed race experience and the ways…
Siyah: Turkey’s Black Social and Cultural Historiography
This is the first essay as part of a new series entitled ‘Siyah’, which explores the relationship between the African Diaspora and Turkish social…
Latest Posts
Is Afropean a Project Towards Emancipation? Part 2: A Personal History of the Impact of Portuguese Colonisation
Written by CS Bastos Gomes Pinto In Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explains how black children in colonised Martinique learned to identify themselves…
Interrogating Mixedness: The Mixed Bloom Room
Written by Nina Camara Conversations about race in multiracial families can be challenging. Unlike individuals from Black monoracial background who still have ‘the talk’ with…
Is Afropean a Project Towards Emancipation? Part 1
Written by CS Pinto I am Portuguese. I grew up in a low-income and racialised neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. My parents are…
Event Review: Révolution Rap: Une Histoire Africaine + Great Black Music
Written by Tola Ositelu Révolution Rap: Une Histoire Africaine? This autumn the Central Brussels hub Point Culture celebrates the transatlantic musical exchange that is…
Tramonto – Sunset
Written by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher This short piece of creative fiction is an excerpt from Tramonto (Sunset), a children’s picture book, published in Italy. It…
BFI Festival Special: ‘African Apocalypse’
Written by Tola Ositelu British-Nigerian activist Femi Nylander came to prominence as one of the leading voices of the Oxford University ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign. In his…
Sunday Poem: The Writing on the Wall
‘Wogs out’ the graffiti sprayed In those Bedfordshire days That led me to question With what affection was my sort held? Signed ‘NF’…
Surrealism through a Black Lens at The Horniman Museum, London
Surrealism seen through a Black British lens, at the Horniman An Ode to Afrosurrealism, a new photographic art exhibition (opening 17 October) at the…
In Liminal Space Part 4
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews focusing on the liminality of the mixed race experience and the ways…
A Mother’s Personal Journey to Shame
Written by Karina Simonson Writing from Lithuania, academic Karina Simonson critically reflects on why she felt having a mixed-race son affords her legitimacy as…