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Igiaba Scego (born 20 March 1974) is an Italian writer, journalist, and activist.
Igiaba Scego è nata in Italia da una famiglia somala, figlia di Ali Omar Scego, primo governatore di Mogadiscio, ambasciatore e ministro degli esteri emigrato in Italia all'indomani del colpo di Stato di Siad Barre del 1969.
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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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.
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.
Feb 15, 2023 · During the Fall semester 2022, Italian author, journalist, and activist Igiaba Scego took on a visiting scholar appointment at Duke University. Not quite as familiar as her hometown of Rome, Durham became her second home for six weeks, a period of time over which she did not rest.
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 ...
