A Blend of Two Worlds – Afropean in The Gambia
Gambia is a place that is on the move. With a past haunted by slavery, colonialism and corruption, Nat Illumine searches a West African…
Narratives
Flanders to Rwanda: ‘Going Back To Where I Came From’, then Returning Home Again
I come out of two different places. One I know all too well, the West of Flanders. It’s a place known for incomprehensible dialects,…
Rap Francais: France and the Art of Storytelling
Apocraphe has been an active part of the UK Hip Hop scene since 1997 as an MC and event organiser, and set up the…
A Bend in the River: Caryl Phillips & Johny Pitts in Search of ‘Other Londons’
Caryl Phillips and Johny Pitts, A Bend in the River (2012) was originally hosted by The Space and commissioned by the British Arts council…
Identity Shifters: Travelling Mixed Race
My mixed identity abroad is a malleable one. It’s a part of me everywhere I go, but its meaning changes with each place. I…
Why Afropean? – The 7.30 Train To Frankfurt
A few years ago, on a snowy January evening, a stranger mistook me for someone they had seen the previous week, aboard an evening…
Já jsem Afropean
At the fourth AfroEuropean conference recently held in London, a young man named Johny Pitts gave a talk about his journey to discover his…
Afropean, moi?
For a long time, when I was living in France, a lot of my close friends were mixed race people. It had never been…
Art Deco & Africa
Art Deco & Africa, 1925 This weekend, after picking up an ENAR Foundation Award in Paris for the Facebook page Afropean Culture (Woo Hoo!),…
On Having an Afro in Britain
My white friends from Sheffield always mock me…. “He only pulls ’cause of his afro” they say, if I ever get attention from the…