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Theatre Review: A Reading of ‘Not Bound Within’ @ the Canada Water Culture Space
Juno (Maia Watkins) is concerned about her best friend, Venus / V (Jessica Murrain). She is more withdrawn since becoming the talk of the…
Melilla: Europe in Africa
By Ella Daniels Afropean’s Ella Daniels reports from the ground in Melilla, a Spanish outpost in Morocco, where the racialized reality shows the stark…
Theatre Review: ‘They Drink it in the Congo’ by Adam Brace
Professional do-gooder Stefanie Cartwright (Fiona Button) is trying to organise an awareness-raising event about the dire socio-political situation in the DRC. ‘Trying’ being…
Notes of An African American Intern in Europe: Part 2
In her second diary entry, Afropean’s intern Imani Ballard reflects on the Colonial power on display in some of Europe’s cultural spaces, and grapples…
Human Rights Human Wrongs, Colonial Conflict & Revolution Exhibition, Photographer’s Gallery, London
The Photographers’ Gallery in collaboration with The Ryerson Image Centre and Autograph ABP present Human Rights Human Wrongs. Partly Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s ‘Black Skin…
Film Review: Concerning Violence
By Tola Ositelu Dogwoof Productions and Scandinavian filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson present ‘Concerning Violence’, a sobering look at the anti-colonial struggle across various African…
Review of David Goldblatt, Structures of Dominion and Democracy, Paris
By Olivia Anani “The infectious spread of apartheid into the smallest detail of daily living has made South Africa a land of signs” -Tamar…
Midnight Love: The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium
Words & Photographs by Johny Pitts Even the Belgians I spoke to gave me strange looks. Why would anyone go out of their way…
Paths of Dignity : Visual Representations of Colonial Africa, Paris Until 28.05.14
Photographers from the imperial era have left abundant images that give access to colonial history as it was lived and forged by European settlers…