"NOMAD inherent in my DNA is the key to my creativity. I find the idea that stubbornly child can be born, live and die in the same place. " The notes in the book The trip overturned, edited by era, but it lives mainly on her skin: the author, Valerie Acava Mmaka, has fair skin but Africa in the blood. In his busy life from the perspective of personal and professional - a journalist and writer, poet and author of theater, cultural mediator and founder of "Nomadic Subjects" (http://soggettonomade.blogspot.com/) -, intermarriage is much more than an abstract concept.
Born in Rome 39 years ago by parents of Italian origin Greek, grew up in South Africa (where he arrived a few months old) and in Kenya. It is here that he decided to return with her three daughters, half of which are
Kenyan (dad is in fact a musician and dancer Peter Kuria Asamba) between Mombasa island of Mamu, places his father around the Indian Ocean . Places which is tied
from sentimental reasons - in fact - and with cultural and artistic events. 'Port in the enchantment of
perceptions and emotions, strong and radical meetings and suffering that have transformed my life
privileged enough to hear me now than any other kind of life imaginable. "
IS A MIGRANT the cont
rario, Valentina: ha scelto di stabilirsi in Africa orientale. «Visto che mi sono dovuta adattare varie volte, definisco me stessa più attraverso relazioni familiari e personali che con l’idea di cittadinanza», afferma, precisando che per lei le frontiere «sono presenze effimere: sento di appartenere a più luoghi simultaneamente ». Forse la decisione di rientrare nella sua patria d’adozione è «un’eredità acquisita con l’esperienza - spiega -. Sebbene la mia famiglia sia da moltissime generazioni in movimento, il mio è un caso un po’ sui generis. Nel tempo si è radicata in me la necessità di muovermi, fuggire la fissità per continuare il dialogo that stops at every start, and at the same time to find answers: what each of us tries, but they need me in the form of movement. " The writer, therefore, now considers itself as part of "the seduction of departure and return, and the finding of abandonment." Not to mention that 'migration from Africa to Italy are the result of a series of tragic circumstances that often drives people and people to leave. However
Africa has a priceless heritage of human and natural resources ... If only he could regain autonomy, sterile and free of harmful complicity of Western states that make the law and feeding dramas for their own interests, perhaps many people may decide to stay. "
BORN IN ITALY, AND GROWTH IN SOUTH AFRICA AND KENYA, WHERE HE DECIDED TO LIVE
" I find the idea that children can be born, live and die in the same place "
author also of fairy tales and children's educational books on the tribes of East Africa and South Africa, Acava Mmaka has a very unique idea of \u200b\u200bhow to tell the Italians Africa
children, during his business trips in our Country: "The children are wonderful partners. Their lively curiosity and sincere desire to learn, their natural freedom from prejudice
makes them the true mediators of our society. They have much to teach
adults are extraordinarily aware that there is something more than what they already know
Africa, mostly stereotypes. They find a friend so far, different, full of novelty, nuance and intelligence sides; perceive it as a place to see and touch, smell and hear. "
The children of our country are fascinated by colors and soft shapes, scents and African rhythms, but not only: "When I tell the lives of their peers in the slums of Nairobi or Mombasa, or that of rural villages, often passionate about certain" freedom "of their brethren at the Equator, covering the relationship with the environment, urban space. We should rather ask
on family and school, the driving forces for intercultural interaction can take place
successfully, "says Valentina. Ban, therefore, "the perspective of self
European culture. If you listen to those who represent it in Africa, would be the beginning of an opening to the new.
Dialogue can only occur in a culture of respect and knowledge. "
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