First session of Nyumbani Book Club around Madre Piccola, written by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo : Elena Lespes Muñoz.
First session of Nyumbani Book Club around Madre Piccola, written by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo : Elena Lespes Muñoz.
The Nyumbani Book Club – “to be home” in Kiswahili – is an association for scientific and cultural mediation which develops artistic projects dedicated to the joining of the social sciences and the arts, from and about Africas as well as their diasporas. Its events broach political, feminist and migrant perspectives. The chosen theme for the 2024 season is exile.
This year, the theme of exile offers a literary journey from West Africa to the Horn of Africa, via Southern Africa. For our first literary afterwork of the year, the Nyumbani Book Club invites you to join us for a poetic discussion of the first novel, Madre Piccola, by the Italian-Somali author Ubah Cristina Ali Farah. Dubbed ‘the novelist of the diaspora’ and winner of the prestigious Vittorini Prize in 2008, the little flower of her Somali first name explores with finesse and depth the themes of identity, migration and the human consequences of conflict.
Join us on 25 January from 6 pm at Bétonsalon for an immersive evening at the crossroads of the social sciences and African and diasporic women’s writing!
The club is open to everyone, whether you’ve finished the book or not.
Come and share your ideas in a warm and stimulating atmosphere at Bétonsalon.
