The European Tribe | Caryl Phillips

In Afropean, Johny Pitts kept raving about his 'predecessor' in Afropean travel-writing Caryl Phillips so I was curious to read it for myself. While Phillips set out not to find the Black community in Europe but rather to see how far the influence of the so called 'European Tribe' reached there are certainly some similarities between both books. It is really interesting to read about Berlin when the wall was still standing, dinner with James Baldwin in France and Soviet Union Moscow. Both books are also written from a certain judgmental point of view I couldn't identify with yet that didn't keep me from enjoying the read.

Paperback | 144 pages | ISBN: 9780375707049