Johny Pitts – Afropean
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Johny Pitts is a multiple-award-winning writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist, originally from Sheffield, England. His first book, Afropean (2020), combines travel writing, photography, history, and slices of memoir into a nonfiction work that seeks to sketch the many lives lived by Black people in contemporary Europe. In this fascinating interview, he tells the story of how he moved from wandering the streets and record stores of his hometown, lost, to becoming the head of continent-wide network of Black writers committed to capturing their experiences in Europe – in all their beauty and challenge.   'Who are the members of the Black community living in a place like Frankfurt?'   Craft is brought to you by Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing. Check out our website, www.wasafiri.org, for outtakes and a full transcript of this interview, and much more from writers all over the world. Craft is sponsored by Arts Council England, and Queen Mary University of London. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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