Today, more than ever, we need access to platforms, institutions, and spaces that allow us to proudly claim our dignity, to corroborate the idea that our body is as valuable as everyone else’s, that we cannot pay the price for an “original sin“ that is our beauty, our light, and our ancestral line. Today, as also proposed by Andi Nganso during the last edition of Festival DiverCity, we need a perimeter of healing and care where we can give a sense of peace to traumatized communities in need of repair and love.
We need to build community spaces where we can find strength, but also be fragile, be afraid and at the same time feel safer by honoring those who have fought before us—answering the prayer of the ancestors, embodying the hope of those who have been separated from their loved ones and this world, that they will not be forgotten.
May you and the others rest in peace:
Rome, May 21, 1979: Ahmed Ali Giama
Udine, July, 10 1985: Giacomo Valent
Castel Volturno, 1986: Thomas Quaye and George Anang
Provincia di Caserta, 1987: Fouad Khaimarouni
Mondragone, September, 30 1988: Juma Iddi Bayar
Casal di Principe, April 6, 1989: Ben Alì Hassen
Casapesenna, June 3, 1989: Abderrhmann Meftah and Baid Bouchaid
Caserta, August 25, 1989: Jerry Essan Masslo
Novara, May 16, 2001: Mohamed Sow
Roma, April 8, 2007: Abdul Manan
Province of Varese, June 17, 2008: Said Abdel Halim
Massacre of Castel Volturno, September 18, 2008: Kwame Antwi Julius Francis, Affun Yeboa Eric, Christopher Adams, El Hadji Ababa e Samuel Kwako, Jeemes Alex, Kwado Owuso Wiafe, and Karim Yabuku
Milan, September 14, 2008: Abdul William Guibre
Civitavecchia, January 21, 2009: Cheik Diouf
Florence, December 11, 2011: Samb Modou and Diop Mor
Marches, July 7, 2016: Emmanuel Chidi Namdi
Venice, January 22, 2017: Pateh Sabally
Reggio Calabria, January 27, 2018: Becky Moses
Florence, March 5, 2018: Idy Diene
Catanzaro, June 2, 2018: Soumaila Sacko,
Foggia, 28 March 2019, African migrant killed (without ID)
Colleferro, September 6, 2020: Willy Monteiro Duarte
Voghera, July 23, 2021: Youns El Boussettaoui
Turin, December 20, 2021: Souleymane Adama Coundoul
Civitanova Marche, July 29, 2022: Alika Ogorchukwu
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