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Igiaba Scego (born 20 March 1974) is an Italian writer, journalist, and activist.
Jul 13, 2021 · Igiaba Scego, a Somali-Italian writer, recounts her experiences of racism and alienation in Italy in this excerpt from her memoir. She describes how her mother's stories of Somalia helped her to reclaim her identity and language amid the hostility and ignorance of her classmates and teachers.
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Mar 20, 1974 · Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer, journalist, and activist of Somali origin. She graduated with her BA in Foreign Literature at the First University of Rome (La Sapienza) as well as in pedagogy at the Third University of Rome. Presently, she is writing and researching cultural dialogue and migration.
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Igiaba Scego is a Somali Italian writer, cultural activist, and freelance scholar. She was born in Rome to Somali parents who took refuge in Italy following a coup d’état in their native country, where her father served as foreign minister. Read More.
An Italian-born Somali writer confronts Italy’s colonial past, beginning with an Italian journalist’s purchase and rape of a twelve-year-old girl, whom he later “gave” to “an old colonist used to having his own harem,” and extending through the Italian feminists who’ve recently become the protagonists of one of the most interesting postcolonial,...
May 1, 2020 · This interview with Igiaba Scego, renowned Italian author and journalist of Somali descent, explores the relationship between letteratura della migrazione, the italophone migrant literary movement of the 1990s and early 2000s, and migritude, a burgeoning global literary genre and field of scholarship that addresses contemporary discourses of ...
Igiaba Scego is an Italian novelist and journalist. She was born in Rome in 1974 to Somali parents who had emigrated to Italy following Siad Barre’s 1969 coup d’état. Scego’s father had been a well-known politician in Somalia and had held posts such as ambassador and foreign minister.
