The day I became African

  April 14th, 1993: I was born in Bergamo (Italy). I was allowed to stay in the country I was born in thanks to my parents’ residency permit. May 2004: my father became an Italian citizen and he passed his newly acquired nationality to us. I had already felt Italian but I officially wasn’t. I actually […]

Why did historians of Europe doubt that Africa had real history, and how have scholars of Africa attempted to prove them wrong?

  From the 1800’s, Africa was believed to not have a real history. European historians thought that since Africans did not develop a literate way to record events, their past belonged to prehistory. Nevertheless, starting from the 1950’s – 60’s, scholars of Africa began to argue that the Black continent had a real past with its […]

Farafinna. Finding my African self.

It took me a while to figure out how I would call my blog. Then “Farafinna”, Africa in Bamanankan (one of the 50 languages spoken in Mali), and “finding my African self” came to my mind. I need stability. I need to find out what and who I am. I’ve reached a point in my life where […]