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…
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…
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…
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…
Tramonto – Sunset
Written by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher This short piece of creative fiction is an excerpt from Tramonto (Sunset), a children’s picture book, published in Italy. It…
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 4
Written by Nina Camara In Liminal Space is a series of interviews focusing on the liminality of the mixed race experience and the ways…