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A review by wellreadtj
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
5.0
The Afropean is the friends we made along the way...
Jokes aside, this was an excellent book to have read as my first book to get back into reading after what feels like a decade. I really enjoyed the book, it gave a lot of relatable but also a slight differing perspective on what it is to be Afropean, and what astounded me the most as I was close to finishing to reading it is that what I'm reading is a travelogue! Although I might have some reservations and differences in how certain narratives might've *initially* been made, I very much came to reconcile them as I realise how trivial those differences were and how aware the author had been during this book, as he himself is also a person. The highlight of this book is that it concludes and wraps up the story wonderfully. I genuinely had felt like it opened so many things as I began and was midway through the book, but in the end chapters felt like it was really a story that was properly finishing but could be continued outside the book's pages. Soooo good!
Jokes aside, this was an excellent book to have read as my first book to get back into reading after what feels like a decade. I really enjoyed the book, it gave a lot of relatable but also a slight differing perspective on what it is to be Afropean, and what astounded me the most as I was close to finishing to reading it is that what I'm reading is a travelogue! Although I might have some reservations and differences in how certain narratives might've *initially* been made, I very much came to reconcile them as I realise how trivial those differences were and how aware the author had been during this book, as he himself is also a person. The highlight of this book is that it concludes and wraps up the story wonderfully. I genuinely had felt like it opened so many things as I began and was midway through the book, but in the end chapters felt like it was really a story that was properly finishing but could be continued outside the book's pages. Soooo good!