Lettura e ascolto sono i migliori strumenti per evitare di alimentare interpretazioni stereotipate sull'Africa. In questo incontro si affronterà la "smitizzazione" del Continente utilizzando le paro...
Antonella Sinopoli
Antonella Sinopoli, a journalist, has been focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa for years. She founded the AfroWomenPoetry project to "narrate the female universe in a changing Africa" through the poetic voices of women.
She co-founded a project on Africa and mental health. She is a co-author of the podcast "Parole in folle" and co-organizer of the homonymous slam poetry and spoken word show with artists from Africa. She curated the collection of the first contemporary African poet published in Italy, "Terre che piangono" (Interlinea, 2023). She has conducted courses and seminars on biases related to the continent, on information about and from Africa, and on the communicative models of Western media.
Author of "White Arrogance: What Africans Say About What Whites Think of Them" (Quintadicopertina, 2017), she has implemented development and women's empowerment projects in rural villages in Ghana. For years, she was an editor for Adnkronos and has written for various publications.
She lives between Italy and Ghana.
Events IJF 2024
Even mainstream journalists are activists. They become so whenever they touch uncomfortable and unpopular topics. Or when they endanger their safety just to denounce regimes, situations, and dangerous...
There is a great school of investigative journalism in Africa, consisting of journalists, photojournalists, African and Western video-makers who operate in the areas of which they have deep knowledge...
Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a celebrated investigative journalist in Ghana, focusing on issues of human rights and corruption. He has become well known for using his anonymity as a tool in his undercover...
Africa as represented in the Western media: fallacies, approximations, omissions
This panel aims at raising awareness among fellow journalists (and readers) on how issues concerning the African continent are treated, urging them to spread more carefully qualified news and events...
Online conversation and open journalism Public debates on current socio-political topics are mostly taking place online, where experts and citizens can often play a more equal role. How to ensure t...
