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Some people came out to dine on patios for breakfast on Friday, even though the weather was frosty, making the most of the new freedoms offered by the partial reopening.
,
Olivette Otele
offers a new history that celebrates the lives of African Europeans through tracing a long African European heritage, drawing connections across time and space and debunking persistent myths. This is a thrilling and informative read, writes
Michelle M. Wright
, and will prove an excellent introduction for both scholars and lay readers who are relatively new to exploring the histories of this ancient, diverse and growing presence.
African Europeans: An Untold History.
Olivette Otele. Hurst Publishers. 2020.
Professor Olivette Otele’s
African Europeans: An Untold History joins a rather rarified collection of books on Blackness in Europe. One of the earliest I know of, Guyanese-born Professor Ivan Van Sertima’s 1985