Whiteness: Deconstructed
Written by Nat Illumine Introduction The construct of race has been a defining feature of the modern world since the sixteenth century, a…
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African-European Narratives Storytelling: Call for Submissions
African-European Narratives is a storytelling project that addresses the interplay of African and European cultures, widely present in contemporary European societies, rooted in the…
Sade @ 60: Reflections on an Afropean Icon
Written by Tola Ositelu I have been told more than once that I have a freakishly good long term memory. It is thus a…
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Autograph Event Photography and Eritrea 12.03.14- 26.04.14
http://autograph-abp.co.uk/exhibitions/even-this-will-pass Roman Road in association with Autograph ABP presents Even This Will Pass; a pioneering artistic venture by Eritrean-born, London based artist Aida Silvestri….
Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) & Mr Thing @ The Forum 29.03.14
TICKETS: http://www.soundcrashmusic.com/black-star-mos-def-talib-kweli/ Soundcrash are proud to present, undoubtably one of the biggest shows of 2014! Mos Def and Talib Kweli who form Black Star and J.Rocc fly in from the…
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…
Afropean Style: Keeping it Classic with Andy Akinwolere
Andy Akinwolere was born in Nigeria and became the first black male presenter on the children’s flagship show Blue Peter on the BBC….
Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow
Searching for black culture in Moscow was difficult, until I found the People’s Friendship University of Russia on the outskirts of the city, where…
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…
Iya Traore, Paris
As you enter the Sacre Coeur from place St Pierre, you pass Ghanaians selling West African bracelets, Romany gypsies begging, French musicians strumming…various communities…