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…
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Mogadishu – Lost Architecture of the Modern City
Tommy Evans is a British-born vocalist, broadcaster and postgraduate researcher. For his inaugural article for Afropean, he had the great fortune to speak to…
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,…
An Afropean in Marrakech
Marrakech is a multicultural city with African, Arab, Berber and French influences and could almost be described as an Afropean Mecca, where Africa meets…
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…
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!),…
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…