Book Review: ‘Stay with Me’ by Ayobami Adebayo
Yejide and Akin’s fairytale romance is being put to the ultimate test by the pressure to conceive. Akin’s family have taken matters into their…
Culture
CHEZ MOI LOIN DE CHEZ MOI (Home Far From Home)
By Maria Baoli This project maps the African House (La Maison Africaine or Maisaf), nestled in the Brussels neighbourhood of Matongé, in between the…
Puma Blue – Swung Baby (E.P.)
Puma Blue Swum Baby E.P. (Inner City Float) 8/10 Take the softness of Elliot Smith’s sincerity and sadness, the warmness of Jeff Buckley’s longing;…
Sunday poem – What my love en/tails by Adebe DeRango Adem
What my love en/tails I inhabit these rooms these Watery walks with Egyptian alabaster women & genuine Angels, calypso mermaids, Very old seas that…
Afroeuropeans 2017 Conference, (Final Call For Papers, FestAfrika & More), Tampere, Finland 06.08.17 – 07.08.17 with Professor Paul Gilroy
Programme The full programme of the conference will be published later. The confirmed keynote speakers are: Professor Paul Gilroy, American and English literature, King’s College…
Life in The Hinterlands; Growing up Gay & Mixed Race on The Isle of White
By Ashley Thomas Life as a mixed gay man seems a singular experience. Who, what and where are the fluid foundations on which I’m constructed, construed and constrained. To some I am black but not Black, clearly not white or not Black enough. To others, I am an undecided shade of, well, I…
Theatre Review: ‘Custody’ by Urban Wolf & Tom Wainwright @ The Oval Theatre
Brian, a young man of Nigerian descent, is killed by the police following what was supposed to be a ‘routine’ stop and search. The…
Caleb Femi: Lines From LDN
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…
Bursting the Diversity Bubble: Teaching My Mixed Race Child about Race
My daughter lives in a diversity bubble and I don’t know when, or how, I should burst it. By this I mean that…
Musings of an African American in Spain: References – In The Mind of a Child
Apart from being a master’s student I’m also a babysitter. Every morning I wake up around 6:30 am, get ready, walk over to Poblenou,…