Expanding Unicorn Riot's 'One Year After George Floyd: A Global Perspective' series, we visit Athens, Greece, and hear from an Afro-Greek and two African migrants living in Greece, each from various Black/African communities. They spoke about their opinions and thoughts about the impacts that the killing of George Floyd and the uprising had in Greece and the anti-racist legacy it left in the country and globally.

In the third of three videos, we hear from Michalis Affolanio. He is one of the main pillars at Anasa Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. He’s an experienced hip-hop artist, actor, and activist. Anasa is a cultural center for African arts and culture in the Kerameikos neighborhood in the center of Athens, functioning since 2010.

Speaking in only Greek, Affolanio gave an analysis of the boosting impacts on the Afro diaspora from the uprising in response to the police killing of George Floyd. Affolanio said the second generation, of which he’s a part of, being born in Greece to parents from Nigeria, gained a “voice” and “strength” from the uprising.

He said that “people of African ancestry” protested in the streets and became more organized and educated. Affolanio said that they took to studying the history of America (historical narratives of the African Holocaust/slavery are often overlooked across the world). Upon learning “more about what has happened in the States … the history of the Black diaspora in the New World starting [with] the slavery era” that people became “radicalized” and began self-organizing to “create groups and speak up.”

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