Europe
Black Women In Europe
As long as humans have been migrating across oceans and mountains, there have been black people present in Europe.
The stories flowing out of modern Black Europe are vast and rich, and as a digital media platform based in Britain, Black Ballad is honoured to contribute to that.
Read on for more stories from across Europe.

Tobi Oredein
Founder's Letter: Rest, Joy and Rediscovery: My First Solo Trip at 35
Sunday 27 April 2025 11:59 PM


Nour Abida
Why Some Young Black French People Are Moving Back To Africa
Tuesday 12 November 2024 8:00 AM


Sage I. Hunter
There Are No Utopias: Anti-Blackness In ‘Tolerant’ Sweden
Thursday 8 August 2024 8:00 AM

Estelle Emmannuelle Biyiha
Aya Nakamura & What It Means To Be A Black French Woman
Tuesday 28 May 2024 8:00 AM

Chioma Okereke
I Never Fit In Anywhere, So How Did I Find ‘Home’ In Rural France?
Thursday 11 April 2024 8:00 AM



Faith Katunga
How Black Women Are Thriving In Italy’s Business Landscape
Wednesday 25 October 2023 8:00 AM

Letitia Jarrett
Finding My Place as a Black British Woman in South Italy
Tuesday 24 October 2023 8:00 AM

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Messy Black Characters & The White Readers Who Won’t Let Them Live
Thursday 19 October 2023 8:00 AM


Jamila Pereira
Portugal Isn’t The Progressive Travel Destination It Pretends To Be
Thursday 10 August 2023 8:00 AM

Mia Thornton
Meet Nabyla & Jasmina Serag of Switzerland's Sirens of Lesbos
Wednesday 2 August 2023 8:00 AM

Adama Juldeh Munu
How A Trip To Sarajevo Reawakened A Painful Personal Truth
Tuesday 31 January 2023 8:00 AM


Sabrina-Maria Anderson
How To Bring Political Activism Into Your Everyday Spaces
Tuesday 1 November 2022 8:00 AM

Shine Steel
The Black Women Helping Black & Brown Students Stranded In Ukraine
Monday 7 March 2022 8:30 AM

Jendella Benson
Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström & 'In Every Mirror She's Black'
Thursday 28 October 2021 7:00 AM
Erica B. Donaldson-Ellison
Acts Of Resistance While Travelling As A Black Woman In Europe
Tuesday 28 September 2021 7:00 AM
Alisa Jordan
As A Black British/Caribbean Woman Living In Germany, Where Do I Fit?
Friday 16 July 2021 7:00 AM
Tida Dos Santos Baldé
The Shocking Politeness Of Northern Ireland's Racism
Friday 25 June 2021 7:00 AM
Tomiwa Folorunso
The Black Women Who've Left The UK For The Rest Of Europe
Thursday 22 April 2021 7:00 AM
Tomiwa Folorunso
Editor's Letter: My Two Years of Optimism With Black Ballad
Sunday 6 December 2020 9:30 PM
Phedra Broch
Black Banter And Navigating My Home As An Afro-German In Nottingham
Saturday 17 October 2020 7:00 AM
Bella Frimpong
The Black European Identity: Reflections On Brexit And Black Europeans
Tuesday 30 April 2019 7:00 AM