Afropean: Notes from Black Europe- Johnny Pitts

To be an Afropean “encouraged me to think of myself as whole and unhyphenated ... Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity at large” writes the author.

Travelling the streets of Europe armed with camera and pen, Pitts quests to discover whether it is possible to escape the worn out labels applied to Europe’s individual black communities and instead explores the possibility of claiming the more unifying of ‘Afropean’.

Part travelogue, part exploration of race and a good smattering of politics, this book is made extraordinary by the epic cast of characters he meets, the accessible and engaging writing, and by the thoughtful nature of it’s author