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Your guide to the African European diaspora and beyond.
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National Identity, Citizenship, and Belonging: Afro-descendants in Spain and Catalonia.
"To be an Afro-descendant here is hard. Like I’ve explained, you never feel this is your place… "
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November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"Coleridge-Taylor’s first visit to America occurred at a critical moment when African-Americans desperately needed something or someone to restore faith in themselves. They needed reassurance they were on the path to a brighter future ..."
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November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"As the Siyah series draws to a close – one of the most consistently popular features on Afropean.com – it feels like the end of an era. Visionary of the series, Adama Munu reflects on the past five years; from genesis to conclusion."

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November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"The Story of UK Soul - In episode 1 we head back to the late sixties and very early seventies. From the dancehalls of Wigan and the sound systems of Notting Hill, this landmark series looks at the roots of UK soul."
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

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November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"Touring all-Black theatre company, Tangle put their distinctive, multi-lingual stamp on one of Shakespeare’s best known and oft-quoted historical dramas."

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November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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"Drawing from her Turkish Cypriot and Jamaican roots, Nazlı Ramadan’s new pop-up restaurant JURKISH is a blend of Mediterranean flavours with the bold, spiced essence of the Caribbean. "
‘Siyah’, pt 20 by journalist Adama Juldeh Munu
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November 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"It is generally acknowledged that the most esteemed and significant African artist in the second half of the 20th century was the modernist, Ben Enwonwu."
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November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Traveller's Tales: An American in Sweden
Nina N. Yeboah delights in the widening of the narrative of black lives in Sweden
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November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"Hester Frederica Marguerite Harvey was born in South Africa in 1896. She came to Europe as a young woman and worked as a dancer and actress in Berlin."
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November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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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October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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
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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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October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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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October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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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October 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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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October 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
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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
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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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October 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM