The Afropolitan Festival, 03.02.17- 05.02.17, Brussels
The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners,…
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Short Story: A Life in Boxes By Olivier Gbezera
He had not opened the boxes in ages, and had forgotten how many were there. He had wanted to go through them, but hadn’t…
Tangled Roots: The Mixed Race Experience in Manchester, UK
Unique Event Celebrates Manchester’s Mixed Race Families On Saturday 25 October Tangled Roots is to stage a unique live theatre workshop and performance at…
2nd Annual Black Portraiture Conference, Florence, 2015
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…
MOGADISHU – LOST MODERNS Rashid Ali & Andrew Cross 07.03.14 – 26.04.14
The Mosaic Rooms are pleased to present Mogadishu – Lost Moderns, the first exhibition to explore Mogadishu through its architecture and urban environment, narrating the…
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…
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…
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