Mar 17, 2017
As the AFROPUNK movement expands outside of it’s US home and into new territories — London, Johannesburg, Paris and beyond — we invited four intellectuals in these countries to explore the notion of what it is to be black. They are explorations of the commonalities in global black culture, and in the differences, meant to celebrate and condemn, shine a light on all the things that unite diverse peoples of colour and spotlight the contrasts between their individual circumstances.
The following is the first of four essays - Open Letters - that AFROPUNK has commissioned. We open in London with writer and cultural commentator Ekow Eshun's ‘Black Like Basquiat’.