Da due anni il Sudan è teatro di un conflitto brutale tra due generali rivali, con conseguenze devastanti: milioni di persone sfollate, carestie in aumento, un numero imprecisato di morti e stupri di...
Antonella Sinopoli
Antonella Sinopoli, journalist, has been covering Sub-Saharan Africa for years.
She founded the AfroWomenPoetry project to "tell the story of the female universe in a changing Africa" through the poetic voices of women. She is the co-author of the podcast Parole in folle, which explores African poetry on mental distress, and co-organizer of the slam poetry and spoken word performance of the same name, featuring artists from across Africa.
She curated the collection of the first contemporary African poet published in Italy, Terre che piangono (Interlinea, 2023). She also curated the Italian edition of Congolese-origin poet Sarah Lubala’s collection, Una storia di sparizione(Capovolte, 2025). She is the author of the essay Black Sisters: Women and War in Sub-Saharan Africa (Infinito, 2025) and wrote White Arrogance: What Africans Say About What White People Think of Them (Quintadicopertina, 2017).
She worked for years as an editor at Adnkronos and writes for Nigrizia and Valigia Blu.
She lives between Italy and Ghana.
Events IJF 2025
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...
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...
