Notas sobre la Europa negra
“A semantic space opened up for me, where blackness played a part in shaping European identity […] A continent of Cape Verdean favelas, Algerian street markets, Surinamese shamanism, German reggae and Arab castles. Yes, all of this is part of Europe too […] With my brown skin and my British passport – at the time of writing, still a free pass to continental Europe – I set out on a cold October morning in search of Afropeans.” Afropean is a reportage about Europeans of African descent juggling their multiple loyalties and forging new identities; an alternative map of the continent, taking us to places like Cova da Moura, the Cape Verdean shantytown outside Lisbon with its own underground economy; Rinkeby, the 80 per cent Muslim district of Stockholm; the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, where West African students continue to take advantage of ties established with the Sovi...read more
