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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Fernando Beleza PintoORCiD
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This article examines the articulations of Afropolitanism in contemporary Portuguese authors of African descent. It explores the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of Afropolitanism and the Afropolitan, who Taiye Selasi famously located “invariably” between Africa and one G7 city, in the context of the European semi-periphery and the transnational routes of Lusophone post-colonialism (Selasi, “Bye-Bye Babar” [2005]). On the one hand, it argues that in recent years Afrodiasporic writers in Portugal (particularly Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Kalaf Epalanga) have reclaimed forms of Afropolitan identity affirmatively from Lisbon, de-centring the trajectories celebrated by Selasi and expanding the geographies of African cosmopolitanism beyond its established locations. On the other hand, I propose that the Afropolitanism articulated by this group of writers, reformulated and situated in the post-colonial Lusophone space, has also responded to some of the criticisms levelled at the very notion of Afropolitan identity suggested by Selasi, making a relevant contribution to the contemporary debate on the ethical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of Afropolitanism.
Author(s): Beleza F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: In Press
Journal: Via Atlântica
Year: 2025
Acceptance date: 08/08/2024
Date deposited: 09/08/2024
ISSN (electronic): 2317-8086
Publisher: Universidade de São Paulo
