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Johny Pitts

Johny Pitts is the author of Afropean.  He has presented on MTV, BBC, and ITV1, and his broadcasting includes a BBC Radio 4 documentary exploring Black identity through the music of his father who was a member of the Northern Soul group The Fantastics  Society.

Pitts currently presents Open Book for BBC Radio 4 and a forthcoming Afropean podcast funded by a grant from the National Geographic. He won the Jhalak Prize for Afropean. The book was also a winner of the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing.

www.johnypitts.com
The identity parade

Original Series

The identity parade

Johny Pitts on identity parades, the commodification of 'multiculturalism' and its detachment from the lived reality of the working class.

by Johny Pitts

25th May 2021

Johny Pitts, WritersMosaic contributor

Johny Pitts

"Toni Morrison meant little to me when I was tasked to read her at school, but when hip-hop artists Mos Def and Talib Kweli, as Black Star, encoded the themes of her novel The Bluest Eye in the track Thieves in the Night, I began to think of myself as a writer and, perhaps more importantly, a reader."

Johny Pitts is an Afropean writer, photographer and BBC broadcaster.

Image credit: Johny Pitts by Jamie Stoker

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