Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping
European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese
shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles.
Yes, all this was
part of Europe too ... With my brown skin and my British passport -
still a ticket into mainland Europe at the time of writing - I set out
in search of the Afropeans, on a cold October morning.'Afropean is an
on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent
are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new identities. Here
is an alternative map of the continent, taking the reader to places
like Cova Da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of
Lisbon with its own underground economy, and Rinkeby, the area of
Stockholm that is eighty per cent Muslim.
Johny Pitts visits the
former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African
students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR, and
Clichy Sous Bois in Paris, which gave birth to the 2005 riots, all the
while presenting Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.
Afropean : Notes from Black Europe - Johny Pitts
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