The Afropolitan Festival, 03.02.17- 05.02.17, Brussels
The Afropolitan Festival is three days of exceptional programming dedicated to Afropolitan art, creativity and state of mind, presented by BOZAR and its partners,…
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L’étranger Musical -An Interview with Adam Naas
My first outing to the London Jazz Festival (LJF) 2016 isn’t going as I hoped. It’s an obstinately wet and miserable day. I traipse all the…
Identity Shifters: Travelling Mixed Race
My mixed identity abroad is a malleable one. It’s a part of me everywhere I go, but its meaning changes with each place. I…
An Afropean in Marrakech
Marrakech is a multicultural city with African, Arab, Berber and French influences and could almost be described as an Afropean Mecca, where Africa meets…
Afropean, moi?
For a long time, when I was living in France, a lot of my close friends were mixed race people. It had never been…
Art Deco & Africa
Art Deco & Africa, 1925 This weekend, after picking up an ENAR Foundation Award in Paris for the Facebook page Afropean Culture (Woo Hoo!),…
Iya Traore, Paris
As you enter the Sacre Coeur from place St Pierre, you pass Ghanaians selling West African bracelets, Romany gypsies begging, French musicians strumming…various communities…
Le Panier, Marseilles
Wandering around the ‘old town’ of Le Panier in Marseilles. Le Panier is an area of the city that was once known for its…
Clichy Sous Bois, Paris
At the end of a difficult few days in the Parisian ‘Banlieue’ of Clichy Sous Bois, I saw a snapshot of hope… © J…