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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, w...

Die Bewegung Black Lives Matter hat die Lebenswelten Schwarzer Menschen auch in Europa in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt. Doch was die Geschichte anbelangt, bleibt die Schwarze Präsenz auf dem Kontinent weiterhin ausgespart. Mit ihrer fulminanten historischen Gesamtdarstellung, die von Schweden über Deutschland bis nach Griechenland führt, füllt Olivette Otele endlich diesen allzu weißen Fleck in der Geschichtsschreibung Europas. Otele e...

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, w...

A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 — SmithsonianConventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Ro...

As early as the third century, St Maurice¿an Egyptian¿became leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as `Africans¿ and those called `Europeans¿. Yet Africans and African Europeans are still widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe.Olivette Otele traces a long African European heritage through the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. S...