Siyah: Black Eunuchs: The Case of Bashir Agha
This personal piece authored by Zeinab Suleiman focuses on the life of Bashir Agha, a prominent African eunuch during slavery in the Ottoman Empire, and…
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IS AFROPEAN A PROJECT TOWARDS EMANCIPATION? PART 3: COLONISED BODIES
Written by CS Bastos Gomes Pinto In ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’, Johny Pitts links the marginalisation of present-day African-descent peoples to colonial history….
Siyah: Deciphering the Ottoman Involvement in the African Slave Trade
This is the second instalment as part of a new series entitled ‘Siyah’ which explores the relationship between the African Diaspora and Turkish social…
Is Afropean a Project Towards Emancipation? Part 2: A Personal History of the Impact of Portuguese Colonisation
Written by CS Bastos Gomes Pinto In Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explains how black children in colonised Martinique learned to identify themselves…
Is Afropean a Project Towards Emancipation? Part 1
Written by CS Pinto I am Portuguese. I grew up in a low-income and racialised neighbourhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. My parents are…
BFI Festival Special: ‘African Apocalypse’
Written by Tola Ositelu British-Nigerian activist Femi Nylander came to prominence as one of the leading voices of the Oxford University ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign. In his…
Sunday Poem: The Writing on the Wall
‘Wogs out’ the graffiti sprayed In those Bedfordshire days That led me to question With what affection was my sort held? Signed ‘NF’…
Film Review: The Trial of Nelson Mandela and Others
By Tola Ositelu The trial of the century and that’s no lie. French filmmakers Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte’s documentary Le Procès Contre Nelson Mandela et les…
Election day – The Migrant’s Vote for Integration
By Zdena Mtetwa-Middernacht It is Election Day in Belgium. I am not voting but I’ve taken the walk to the polling station. The polling…
Race Matters Blog Call for Papers
Do you have a passion for race equality and want to write about it? Why not write for Britain’s number one race equality thinktank?…
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