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Thank you for visiting Afritopic
Magazine. This online-magazine is created with the aim of furnishing
Africans, African descendants and the multicultural communities
world-wide with historical, current, cultural, educative as well as
useful, motivational and inspirational information.
Readers/Visitors are encouraged to submit articles and voice their
opinions on diverse issues relating to Africa. I hope Afritopic Magazine
would emerge as a motivational and inspirational platform where
insightful ideas could be gained and applied to achieve a better future
for Africa, African descendants and multiculturalism as a whole.
As a result of the African Diaspora,
the population of African descendants is growing in different parts of
the world. In the Americas and the Caribbean Islands, while the African
descendants are still in the minority, their cultural and socio-economic
impacts are recognized. In contrary, despite the growing but still very
small population of African descendants in Europe and Asia, their
cultural and socio-economic impact is not recognized and in fact
classified as negligible. In addition to this, the media in general
tends to be biased in their reports on issues concerning Africa and
African descendants. It is true that Africa is facing some political and
economic problems. The critics should however admit that many of these
problems are the result of colonial assault inflicted upon Africa and
the unjustified global market imbalances. This problem by the side,
Africa remains a rich continent with natural resources, beautiful
landscapes, national parks and game reserves as well as interesting
people and culture. The African descendants communities
in different parts of Europe and Asia are growing into multicultural
societies, the way it is in the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. This
situation raises the issue of heritage identification as the case was in
the Americas and the Caribbean Islands. The African descendants in North
America, in the course of their fight for heritage identification and
recognition, fought through the names “Negro” and
“Afro-American” to finally arrive at the recognized name
“African-American”. The African descendants in Europe and Asia are
now going through the same process of finding commonly accepted and
recognized name. In Germany for example, names like Afro-Deutsche,
Schwarze-Deutsche, Afro-German, Black-German and lately African-German
are used to refer to African descendants in Germany. The Afritopic
Magazine team prefers to use the prefix “African-“ when referring to
African descendants anywhere in the world, in conformity with
African-American. Nevertheless, since the countries in Europe are coming
together under the umbrella of the European Union (EU), the African
descendants in Europe are now generally named “African-Europeans”. The issue of identification is one.
Other issues facing African descendants are the delicate issues of
acceptance and recognition. The problems of acceptance and recognition
are strongly connected with communication problems and false
information, which result in pre-conceived biased opinions. African
descendants cannot leave the task of improving their image to the
politicians or the western media. It is necessary that African
descendants combine every effort to provide and share positive,
educative information concerning their rich heritage. Afritopic Magazine
team has devoted itself to providing its readers with very educative,
highly motivational and inspirational information about Africa and its
descendants. In order to achieve its goals, Afritopic Magazine will
partner with accredited institutions/organizations as well as
individuals. The synergy effect derived from all partnerships would then
be used to accelerate the process of acceptance and recognition of
African descendants in all communities. Yours truly, The Editor |
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