Living on the margins
€ 3.00Those who live on the margins of society – on the outskirts of cities, in slums or refugee camps, even street kids – also live on the margins of wealth and the dominant culture, in what could be called a state of suspended social and cultural identity. This is particularly true in refugee camps and on the outskirts of large cities, like those in Africa, where people are neither fully immersed in their traditional culture nor do they feel ‘at home’ in the dominant, imported culture; in the modernity presented by the mass media. Yet this disintegration of individual and community identities sometimes gives rise to new leaders and new forms of communal belonging. People’s greatness emerges in marginal situations such as these, where there is anticipation of the future world.
Event transferred in Piazza dello Spirito santo
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Renato Kizito Sesana is a Comboni missionary, journalist and author. He began working as a missionary in Zambia, and later in Nairobi, Kenya, where he started the Koinonia lay community, and is a founding member of the non-profit association, Amani NGO. He was editor of the Italian magazine Nigrizia in the 1970s, and founder-managing editor of the magazine New People in Nairobi and the Catholic radio station Waumini. He works in particular with street children and young people in Kenya and Zambia, and has for years worked with the Nuba people of Sudan’s eponymous mountain region, who are still victims of genocide at the hands of today’s regime in Khartoum. In 2012 he won the Peace Prize of the Lombardy Region. His publications include La perla nera (with S. Girola, Paoline, 2002), I Am a Nuba (2006), Shikò Una Bambina di strada (Sperling & Kupfer, 2006) and Tutti i cuori del mondo (E. Missionaria Italiana, 2013).
Renato Kizito Sesana & i Dialoghi
2015
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