Last updated October 1, 2024 – 9:20am
Author Johnny Pitts launches a podcast that explores the art, politics, and history of black communities in major European cities.
Johnny, known for his multi-award-winning travel memoir Afropean: Notes From Black Europe, will produce the six-part series in collaboration with production company Reduced Listening.
The Afropean Podcast shines a light on Europe, often overlooked in tourist guides and official national narratives.
Each episode features a different European capital, including Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Lisbon, and Paris.
Recorded on-site, it features a journey through the colonial canals of Amsterdam, a black history walking tour of Brussels and Paris, an architectural stroll from the Stockholm hinterland, a musical journey to Bracas in Lisbon, a psychogeographic walk, and more. It's an immersive listening experience. Along the fault lines of the former Berlin Wall.
The series includes some of Europe's leading black scholars, including Gloria Wecker, Sibo Canobana, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Joy Denalene, the Amsterdam Black Archive, Stephen Simmons, Olivet Otele, and Bonaventure Ndikun. , and interviews with artists, activists, and musicians. , Calaf Eparanga, etc.
To coincide with the release of the podcast, a new high-quality 300-page analogue photobook has been launched. Afropean Journal, published by Merrell, will be launched at Paris Photo 2024, bringing together 20 years of Pitts' photographs, notebooks, and mayflies for the first time.
said Joby Waldman, Managing Director of Reduced Listening. This revisionist history series, long in the making, highlights the cultural richness and social inequalities resulting from the long and complex relationship between Africa and Europe. ”
Reduced Listening's Afropean Podcast launches weekly on all major podcast platforms starting November 5th.
