BHFM FUGA ENG

Program coordinated by Mathias Mesquita_
11 FEBRUARY 5:30 pm
Biblioteca delle Oblate, Via dell'Oriuolo 26
Presentation of the book L'AFRICA CI
STA DI FRONTE. Una storia italiana: dal
colonialismo al terzomondismo, by Leila El Houssi
biblioteca delle oblate
Speakers:
Leila El Houssi, researcher and author of the book
Pape Diaw, Centro l'Oltre Africa
Moderated by Matias Mesquita, Ass. Angolana Njinga Mbande
Although our cities are "invaded" by monuments, buildings
and a streets and squares with names of African origin, many
are unaware of Italy's age-old relations with this continent.
The result is a one-way memory that has inexorably produced
stereotypes, preconceptions and clichés and has given rise
to phenomena of intolerance towards other cultures. The
author tells the story of these ties by bringing to light some
peculiar moments: from the desire for Italian expansion to
that phase, between the 1950s and 1960s, animated by an
ideality towards the African continent. Thanks to an in-depth
bibliographic search and consultation of documents from
the Historical Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Historical Archive of the Presidency of the Republic, the
volume intends to re-sew the threads of a complex and at
times paradoxical history.
Info: njingambande@gmail.com