Adventures in Afro Europe
Decolonising geographical knowledges aims to query implicitly universal claims to knowledges associated with the west, and further interrogate how such knowledges continue to marginalise…
Afropean’s Tommy Evans connects with Caleb Femi, The Young People’s Laureate for London. A poet, educator, photographer and filmmaker, Caleb effortlessly synthesises the…
Afropean’s Tommy Evans exchanges notes on poetry with fellow lyricist Saraiya Bah, one of London’s finest emerging spoken word artists. As a poet, writer…
Why do our heroines have to be ‘beautiful’? Can a female character… just be? What is it saying about literature that we as women…
Poet and Blogger Yomi Sode has taken time out of his busy day job at a local London Authority to speak about his…
Another instant classic (just like United Vibration’s “Grow”). Truth be told this is even more of a special case: as this tune has yet…
For the uninitiated, a night at the opera can be an intimidating prospect. This might well remain the case even with an accessible…
Nigerian immigrants Abiodun (Lanre Malaolu) and Sophie (Estelle Daniels) are a chalk’n’cheese couple working as lavatory attendants at Paradise, a South London nightclub. It’s…
THE AFROPEAN NARRATIVES 1600 – 2066 Friday 15 JULY 2016, 18.00 – 21.45 A night of music, spoken word, talks, gallery tours, hands-on workshops,…
Generally speaking it takes a few years for a song to become an “Afropean Anthem”. Occasionally, however, new music appears that is so unquestionably…