Afropean
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Your guide to the African European diaspora and beyond.
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Melat Nigussie recalls returning to her family's homeland in search of the good, the bad and the ugly
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November 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Melat Nigussie recalls returning to her family's homeland in search of the good, the bad and the ugly
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"In discussions and biographies of the highly regarded Baroque Afro-Spanish artist Juan de Pareja it is routinely overlooked that he painted the first ever self-portrait attributed to an artist of African descent, ..."
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November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"In discussions and biographies of the highly regarded Baroque Afro-Spanish artist Juan de Pareja it is routinely overlooked that he painted the first ever self-portrait attributed to an artist of African descent, ..."
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"Kara Lounge is a lively space where the Senegambian and broader African Diaspora’s vibrant flavours, sounds and art unite.. This is the nineteenth instalment in Siyah... with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu."
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November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"Kara Lounge is a lively space where the Senegambian and broader African Diaspora’s vibrant flavours, sounds and art unite.. This is the nineteenth instalment in Siyah... with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu."
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Mazhar Makatemele - 19th Century
"The history of Afro-Swedes - who were they? With the help of new research, we can present the lives of both famous and unknown black people in Sweden through the ages."
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"The history of Afro-Swedes - who were they? With the help of new research, we can present the lives of both famous and unknown black people in Sweden through the ages."
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October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mazhar Makatemele - 19th Century
"The history of Afro-Swedes - who were they? With the help of new research, we can present the lives of both famous and unknown black people in Sweden through the ages."
www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/projects/...
"The history of Afro-Swedes - who were they? With the help of new research, we can present the lives of both famous and unknown black people in Sweden through the ages."
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A round up of all that caught the eye at last weeks London Film Festival
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October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A round up of all that caught the eye at last weeks London Film Festival
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"Presented here are ten particularly beautiful videos born from a musician’s vision in which something fresh emerges from what W.E.B DuBois described as the ‘double consciousness’ of the black diaspora experience."
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October 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Presented here are ten particularly beautiful videos born from a musician’s vision in which something fresh emerges from what W.E.B DuBois described as the ‘double consciousness’ of the black diaspora experience."
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"I met Tony in a small Italian town 60KM South West of Venice. He described himself, with a wry smile, as ‘The only black man in the village’. He was full of stories… One was about being the European tour manager for Fela Kuti in the 70’s... "
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October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"I met Tony in a small Italian town 60KM South West of Venice. He described himself, with a wry smile, as ‘The only black man in the village’. He was full of stories… One was about being the European tour manager for Fela Kuti in the 70’s... "
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"In the years since Malcolm X successfully internationalised his political cause, it has been readapted and reinterpreted by Turkish Islamist newspaper columnists to make the case for their own political causes in contemporary Turkey."
Siyah Pt.13
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Siyah Pt.13
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October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"In the years since Malcolm X successfully internationalised his political cause, it has been readapted and reinterpreted by Turkish Islamist newspaper columnists to make the case for their own political causes in contemporary Turkey."
Siyah Pt.13
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Siyah Pt.13
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"Tommy Evans meets fellow postgraduate researcher and creative William Barylo to discuss his photographic documentary chronicling the lives and culture of the Bushinengue people... "
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October 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Tommy Evans meets fellow postgraduate researcher and creative William Barylo to discuss his photographic documentary chronicling the lives and culture of the Bushinengue people... "
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Beyond The Binaries of Race and Class
Rapper Essa on his experiences of being a middle man
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Rapper Essa on his experiences of being a middle man
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October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Beyond The Binaries of Race and Class
Rapper Essa on his experiences of being a middle man
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Rapper Essa on his experiences of being a middle man
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"Black GIs were a part of the cohort of soldiers in the Western/Allied Forces’ protectorate of West Germany, following the end of World War Two. The following is a summary of Suzuki’s analysis on Black Americans and Turks navigating racism in West Germany "
'Siyah' pt.12
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'Siyah' pt.12
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October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Black GIs were a part of the cohort of soldiers in the Western/Allied Forces’ protectorate of West Germany, following the end of World War Two. The following is a summary of Suzuki’s analysis on Black Americans and Turks navigating racism in West Germany "
'Siyah' pt.12
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'Siyah' pt.12
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"Ari ku UK, ku London, was the common refrain, and I was ready to be indulged in all that London had to offer... "
Rumbi Makanga recalls her mid-childhood relocation from Harare to London.
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Rumbi Makanga recalls her mid-childhood relocation from Harare to London.
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October 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Ari ku UK, ku London, was the common refrain, and I was ready to be indulged in all that London had to offer... "
Rumbi Makanga recalls her mid-childhood relocation from Harare to London.
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Rumbi Makanga recalls her mid-childhood relocation from Harare to London.
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Journalist Adama Juldeh Munu summarises Derya Özkan’s analysis of the African origins of cool in her essay From the Black Atlantic to Istanbul’s ‘Cool’, and how it relates to Istanbul’s cultural identity and landscape."
Part 16 of the "Siyah" series
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Part 16 of the "Siyah" series
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October 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Journalist Adama Juldeh Munu summarises Derya Özkan’s analysis of the African origins of cool in her essay From the Black Atlantic to Istanbul’s ‘Cool’, and how it relates to Istanbul’s cultural identity and landscape."
Part 16 of the "Siyah" series
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Part 16 of the "Siyah" series
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"October 2025 begins in Barcelona with... the WIMEN Festival, an event that will run throughout the month and be hosted in some of the Catalan capital's most iconic venues. Transforming the music into a very powerful feminist platform."
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October 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"October 2025 begins in Barcelona with... the WIMEN Festival, an event that will run throughout the month and be hosted in some of the Catalan capital's most iconic venues. Transforming the music into a very powerful feminist platform."
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"...whilst sorting through his late father’s personal effects, Joe discovers his dad’s real birthdate is completely different...he was over 10 years older than believed... Joe also finds out Peter was one of 13 siblings, all of whom were hitherto unknown..."
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October 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"...whilst sorting through his late father’s personal effects, Joe discovers his dad’s real birthdate is completely different...he was over 10 years older than believed... Joe also finds out Peter was one of 13 siblings, all of whom were hitherto unknown..."
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TIEMPO NEGRO - FESTIVAL CONCIENCIA AFRO 2025 EN MADRID - FALTA UN DIA! /
TiempoNegro - Afro descendent community festival in Madrid - 1 day to go!
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TiempoNegro - Afro descendent community festival in Madrid - 1 day to go!
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October 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
TIEMPO NEGRO - FESTIVAL CONCIENCIA AFRO 2025 EN MADRID - FALTA UN DIA! /
TiempoNegro - Afro descendent community festival in Madrid - 1 day to go!
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TiempoNegro - Afro descendent community festival in Madrid - 1 day to go!
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"In this third part of the whiteness series, the creation of the white working class as an oppressed group in the UK is interrogated, examining how and why this has fuelled right-wing political mobilisation in defence of its assumed dominance."
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October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"In this third part of the whiteness series, the creation of the white working class as an oppressed group in the UK is interrogated, examining how and why this has fuelled right-wing political mobilisation in defence of its assumed dominance."
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"This is the fifteenth instalment in ‘Siyah’... with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu. Afropean look at celebrated African-American activist James Baldwin’s ten years spent living on and off in Istanbul at the height of the Civil Rights Movement."
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September 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"This is the fifteenth instalment in ‘Siyah’... with journalist Adama Juldeh Munu. Afropean look at celebrated African-American activist James Baldwin’s ten years spent living on and off in Istanbul at the height of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"... at long last, the amazing story of an unusually gifted and resourceful Afro-Portuguese man named Lope Martin was presented to the world in 2021. Arguably the most consequential of all Black explorers of sub-Saharan ancestry... "
Robert Fikes, Jr. on Lope Martin
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Robert Fikes, Jr. on Lope Martin
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September 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"... at long last, the amazing story of an unusually gifted and resourceful Afro-Portuguese man named Lope Martin was presented to the world in 2021. Arguably the most consequential of all Black explorers of sub-Saharan ancestry... "
Robert Fikes, Jr. on Lope Martin
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Robert Fikes, Jr. on Lope Martin
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"Triumphant Nubia: Conqueror of Egypt, Intimidator of Assyria, Nemesis of Rome "
Robert Fikes on Nubia's military campaigns 700 to 25 BC.
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Robert Fikes on Nubia's military campaigns 700 to 25 BC.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Triumphant Nubia: Conqueror of Egypt, Intimidator of Assyria, Nemesis of Rome "
Robert Fikes on Nubia's military campaigns 700 to 25 BC.
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Robert Fikes on Nubia's military campaigns 700 to 25 BC.
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"Esmeray Diriker, otherwise known as ‘Esmeray’ and the ‘Black angel’ in Turkey, was a preeminent feminine voice of Turkey’s music scene in the ’70s and 80s."
Pt 14 of journalist Adama Juldeh Munu's "Siyah" Series
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Pt 14 of journalist Adama Juldeh Munu's "Siyah" Series
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September 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"Esmeray Diriker, otherwise known as ‘Esmeray’ and the ‘Black angel’ in Turkey, was a preeminent feminine voice of Turkey’s music scene in the ’70s and 80s."
Pt 14 of journalist Adama Juldeh Munu's "Siyah" Series
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Pt 14 of journalist Adama Juldeh Munu's "Siyah" Series
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Nat Illumine's series of essays on whiteness Pt 3
"...which groups have been included and excluded in the category of whiteness at different historical junctures, and why, showing how instabilities in the construction of whiteness have worked in its favour."
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"...which groups have been included and excluded in the category of whiteness at different historical junctures, and why, showing how instabilities in the construction of whiteness have worked in its favour."
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September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Nat Illumine's series of essays on whiteness Pt 3
"...which groups have been included and excluded in the category of whiteness at different historical junctures, and why, showing how instabilities in the construction of whiteness have worked in its favour."
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"...which groups have been included and excluded in the category of whiteness at different historical junctures, and why, showing how instabilities in the construction of whiteness have worked in its favour."
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"By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy."
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk
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September 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
"By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy."
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk
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"Adama Juldeh Munu speaks to filmmaker Ümran Safter over her new feature-length documentary on the Ertegün Brothers, who left an indelible imprint on African-American music and culture."
Siyah pt. 11
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Siyah pt. 11
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September 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Adama Juldeh Munu speaks to filmmaker Ümran Safter over her new feature-length documentary on the Ertegün Brothers, who left an indelible imprint on African-American music and culture."
Siyah pt. 11
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Siyah pt. 11
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www.blackaustria.info
"... ist ein deutschsprachiges Online-Medium, das sich als spezialisierte Informationsquelle über die Schwarze Diaspora in Österreich und Europa präsentiert /... German-language online medium that serves as a source of information about the Black Diaspora in Austria & Europe."
"... ist ein deutschsprachiges Online-Medium, das sich als spezialisierte Informationsquelle über die Schwarze Diaspora in Österreich und Europa präsentiert /... German-language online medium that serves as a source of information about the Black Diaspora in Austria & Europe."
September 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
www.blackaustria.info
"... ist ein deutschsprachiges Online-Medium, das sich als spezialisierte Informationsquelle über die Schwarze Diaspora in Österreich und Europa präsentiert /... German-language online medium that serves as a source of information about the Black Diaspora in Austria & Europe."
"... ist ein deutschsprachiges Online-Medium, das sich als spezialisierte Informationsquelle über die Schwarze Diaspora in Österreich und Europa präsentiert /... German-language online medium that serves as a source of information about the Black Diaspora in Austria & Europe."