A review by lizshayne
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele

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I definitely did not give this book its due attention and I really should have read it rather than listened. And it was still a complex and fascinating series of vignettes about the way that people from different locations in Africa have always been back and forth to Europe and part of the European story and we know that and history has a lot to say about it and the way that things are racialized is both perennial and deeply contextual. (Rather like other forms of discrimination...)
Otele's book is just a really good deep dive into the history and also modern state of what it means have ancestry that ties one to Africa and to live in Europe.