Winner of the Jhalak Prize Winner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 'A
revelation' Owen Jones 'Afropean seizes the blur of contradictions that have obscured Europe's
relationship with blackness and paints it into something new confident and lyrical' Afua
Hirsch A Guardian New Statesman and BBC History Magazine Best Book of 2019 '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.
