Afropean- Notes from Black European

'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.