«IL NOMADISMO insito nel mio Dna è la chiave della mia creatività. Trovo ostinatamente infantile l’idea che si possa nascere, vivere e morire nello stesso luogo». Lo annota nel volume Il viaggio capovolto, edito da Epoché, ma lo vive soprattutto sulla sua pelle: l’autrice, Valentina Acava Mmaka, ha la carnagione chiara ma l’Africa nel sangue. Nella sua vita intensa dal punto di vista umano e professionale - giornalista e scrittrice, poetessa e autrice di teatro, mediatrice culturale e fondatrice dell’associazione “Soggetto nomade” (http://soggettonomade.blogspot.com/) -, Intermarriage is much more than an abstract concept.
Born in Rome 39 years ago by Greek-born Italian parents, 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: between Mombasa island of Mamu, places his father around the Indian Ocean. Places to which it is bound by sentimental reasons - in fact - and all cultural and artistic events. 'Port in the enchantment of perceptions and emotions, strong and radical meetings and suffering that have transformed my life so much that I felt privileged today than any other kind of life imaginable. "
È UNA MIGRANTE al contrario, 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 to continue the dialogue 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 dictate Law and fuel for their own dramas, perhaps many people may decide to stay. "
" I find the idea that one child can be born , live and die in one 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 bias makes them the true mediators of our society. Have much to teach adults: they are extremely aware that there is something more than what they already know in 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. "
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, which relate to the relationship with the environment, urban space. We should rather ask about family and school, the driving forces for cross-cultural interaction can be accomplished successfully, "says Valentina. Ban, therefore, "the optical 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. " Laura Badaracco
INTERVIEW WORLD MISSION October 2010
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