Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
by Johny Pitts
RSL Ondaatje Prize · 2024 · ShortlistJhalak Prize · 2020 · WinnerJhalak Prize · 2019 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RSL Ondaatje Prize | 2024 | Shortlist |
| Jhalak Prize | 2020 | Winner |
| Jhalak Prize | 2019 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Johny Pitts's travel book retraces a journey through the Black communities and subcultures of Europe — Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Moscow — to map a Black European identity rarely acknowledged by either European or African-American culture. Combining memoir, photography, history, and cultural criticism, it won the Jhalak Prize in 2020 and the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award.
About the Author
Johny Pitts is a British writer, photographer, and broadcaster born in Sheffield in 1983 to a Jamaican-American father and British mother. He studied in Sheffield and has worked as a model, photographer, and journalist. He is the founder of Afropean.com, a travel and arts journal exploring Black European identity. Read more →
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