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…
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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…
A Traveller’s Tale: Return to Eden
The sign at the gym read: “DO YOU WANT TO BE SHIPWRECKED WITH THE CHANCE TO WIN £25’000? CHANNEL 4 ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE…
10 Classic Escapist Music Videos for The Afropean Traveller
Few arts have developed the idea of Afropean as an aesthetic like music. Presented here are ten particularly beautiful videos born from a musician’s…
Fela & The Only Black Man in Bosaro
I met Tony in a small Italian town 60KM South West of Venice. He described himself, with a wry smile, as ‘The only black…
Afropean Music: A Swedish Soul Classic
This weekend the Scandinavia Show came to London’s Tobacco Dock in Wapping, and being a bit of a Scandophile I decided to pop along…