Reflections on the Black Exodus from White Evangelical Spaces
Written by Mimi Anim I still have not watched the George Floyd video in its entirety. I think it’s dehumanising and desensitising to need…
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An Extract from Bringing Up Race by Uju Asika
In Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World, author Uju Asika examines the impact of racism on children…
Interrogating Mixedness: The Mixed Bloom Room
Written by Nina Camara Conversations about race in multiracial families can be challenging. Unlike individuals from Black monoracial background who still have ‘the talk’ with…
Event Review: Révolution Rap: Une Histoire Africaine + Great Black Music
Written by Tola Ositelu Révolution Rap: Une Histoire Africaine? This autumn the Central Brussels hub Point Culture celebrates the transatlantic musical exchange that is…
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’…
In Liminal Space Part 3
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews focusing on the liminality of the mixed race experience and the ways…
BABYLON – FORTY YEARS ON
Written by Tom Pointon In 2010 I ran a one-day workshop at Gloucester Guildhall Arts Centre entitled ‘Introduction to Black British Film’. Participants explored…
In Preliminal Space: Notes Before Leaving Home
Written by Oliver Taylor Nina Camara has a fascinating series featured on Afropean, called Liminal Space. At the centre of Nina’s interviews with other Afropeans…
Food as Education: An Interview with Gilles Dolatabadi
Written by Tola Ositelu If anyone embodies what it means to be Afropean it’s Strasbourg-based restaurateur, Gilles Dolatabadi. A polyglot of Togolese, Iranian and…
Black: The Literary Salon – 27/2/20, 28/5/20, 24/9/20, London
Cassava Republic Press (the first African publishing house in the UK) and brand communications agency A + F have joined forces to bring…