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…
Narratives
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…
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…