The Traveller: An Ode to Earl Klugh
It is the late 1980s. I’m a child in Tokyo, spending quiet weekday afternoons wandering modern and sparsely populated department stores, whilst my Dad…
Narratives
The Top Ten Black Goalkeepers of All Time
I remember hanging out with some friends at a local football centre (Pitz Super Soccer, Sheffield) once, and one of the older teams needed…
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…
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…