INTERNATIONAL DAY OF AFRICA
On May 25th we celebrate the international day of Africa, honoring a 25 May 1963 when the OUA (Organization for African Unity) was established, and since 2002 replaced by the UA (African Union).
A day in Africa. A day where we will release this name, AFRICA, blogs, articles, tweets, photos, posters, and even some daring news. What about the rest of the year? Will it return to partial oblivion or sometimes almost total to what we subject the continent that saw humanity born? Or perhaps we will talk about it a little by taking advantage of the migratory phenomena that currently affect us as a receiving country – rather than welcoming – with the open fronts of the Canary Islands and more recently Ceuta and Melilla as a result of an upset of the government of Morocco? Or looking at Lampedusa with the arrival of good weather and the most frequent departure of boats from Libyan hell, African hell?
And so perhaps also , from time to time, some official and unofficial media will bring us closer to other African hells, this time traveling beyond the great Sahara desert, where conflicts of various kinds – real and regrettable – reach increasingly vulnerable populations.
But the whole photo should also contain stories of success, celebration, overcoming and light that are also there – real and admirable – and have a more accurate view of a continental globality arising from an immense mosaic of local realities. From the KASSUMAY FOUNDATION with our sensitivity towards the great neighbor of the south – we should say the many neighbors - we try to get closer every day of the year to this AFRICA that fascinates us and always surpasses us.
It is our small contribution to the construction of a world that we dream better, one that they say is possible and that, at least, is so necessary and urgent in the face of the outrageous increase in hate speech and clearly xenophobic and exclusive policies that always point to the other as a source of all evils. We want to choose where to live, to decide where to go, to share with people everywhere. From Sant Boi to AFRICA....from AFRICA to Sant Boi.
A day in Africa. A day where we will release this name, AFRICA, blogs, articles, tweets, photos, posters, and even some daring news. What about the rest of the year? Will it return to partial oblivion or sometimes almost total to what we subject the continent that saw humanity born? Or perhaps we will talk about it a little by taking advantage of the migratory phenomena that currently affect us as a receiving country – rather than welcoming – with the open fronts of the Canary Islands and more recently Ceuta and Melilla as a result of an upset of the government of Morocco? Or looking at Lampedusa with the arrival of good weather and the most frequent departure of boats from Libyan hell, African hell?
And so perhaps also , from time to time, some official and unofficial media will bring us closer to other African hells, this time traveling beyond the great Sahara desert, where conflicts of various kinds – real and regrettable – reach increasingly vulnerable populations.
But the whole photo should also contain stories of success, celebration, overcoming and light that are also there – real and admirable – and have a more accurate view of a continental globality arising from an immense mosaic of local realities. From the KASSUMAY FOUNDATION with our sensitivity towards the great neighbor of the south – we should say the many neighbors - we try to get closer every day of the year to this AFRICA that fascinates us and always surpasses us.
It is our small contribution to the construction of a world that we dream better, one that they say is possible and that, at least, is so necessary and urgent in the face of the outrageous increase in hate speech and clearly xenophobic and exclusive policies that always point to the other as a source of all evils. We want to choose where to live, to decide where to go, to share with people everywhere. From Sant Boi to AFRICA....from AFRICA to Sant Boi.
