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the AfroGreeks discover the history of African populations in Greece and across the Mediterranean over the last three centuries. Workshop with Yannis Spyropoulos, professor of Ottoman history at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies and discussion with 5 Afro-Greeks
28/04/2022 Ampersand art space, Kypseli, Athens, Greece
Within the framework of the collective and ongoing project the AfroGreeks, a detailed research about the Africans of Crete – Chalikoutides, the black Greeks of Thrace and the modern refugees has started. the AfroGreeks project research discovers unknown stories about the presence of the first African populations in Greece and the Mediterranean over the last 3 centuries until their survival today: From Crete, a key location between 3 continents and a place where Africans lived who arrived as slaves from the slave-markets of Africa and Constantinople, to the black Greeks of Thrace, the villages around Avato, where in the 18th century African populations were brought by the Egyptian Sultans. Døcumatism organized a public dialogue with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of Rethymnon, the AfroGreeks protagonists and Professor Yannis Spyropoulos at the Ampersand art space in Kypseli.
