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…
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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!),…
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…