Dieu du Mali

 

In Mali the African culture is especially brilliant. Tissues, architecture, music have a long history of beauty.
From a statistical point of view, Mali is one of the poorest nations on the earth, nevertheless people live a simple and dignified life.
Whenever a guy wants to court a girl, he sends her a storyteller, called "griot". Ancestors' spirits, myths and traditions take part in everyday family life.
In the '30, the french anthropologist M. Griaule was the first who penetrated and described this fascinating world. His book was titled "Dieu d'eau", "God of Water".

Casamance

No one wants them to stay, but they don’t know how to go back.
Some arrived in Amman with their pockets full, today they are begging the United Nations for a mattress.
Other have sold their daughters, still others are taken for mad or try to build themselves a life within hospital walls.
They have triggered a gold mine of revenue and funds, stemming from international feelings of guilt, drug companies and care programmes. Yet they are and they remain unwelcome guests.

Scene 22

"Scene 22" is an unusual glance at New York City. A flash spread by neonlights and lost in Brooklyn shop windows.
"Scene 22" is a long daytime spent in a buddhist temple deep smelling of incense or in a cheap tailor's shop of Chinatown.
These are photographs without emphasis, enchanted by the lyrism around them. They are a path inthrough the inner jazzy night. And there, at the rhythm of a "solo" for piano, "Scene 22" lights up.

Teologia da libertação
Liberation theology

Such an hope, such a dream, such an enthusiasm! The pauper Church, the fights for the land, the marxist priests...
Liberation Theology has been a great, lost occasion of redemption for many. In Latin America but not only.
Its special vision of life, its focus on marginalized people, on their human value: i’ve try to bring all of this back to life once again.

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