Ingy Mubiayi

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Ingy Mubiayi
Born
Ingy Mubiayi Kakese

(1973-06-27) 27 June 1973 (age 51)
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)Writer, language teacher
Years active2000–present
Known formigrant narratives

Ingy Mubiayi (born 27 June 1972) is an Egyptian-born Italian writer. She focuses her works on migrants and has become a voice of the Italian-African diaspora. In 2004, she was the recipient of the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers for her work "Documenti, prego". In addition to her writing, Mubiayi teaches Italian and Arabic and has worked as a translator.

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Biography

Ingy Mubiayi Kakese was born on 27 June 1973 [1] to a Congolese father and Egyptian mother in Cairo, Egypt, where she lived until she was four years old. Moving to Rome, Italy, in 1977, she first attended a French school as her spoken languages were French and Arabic. When her sister was confused by the multi-lingual household, her parents imposed a rule of only speaking Italian and she lost her earlier two languages. [2] Mubiayi attended the Sapienza University of Rome, graduating with a degree in the History of Islamic Culture. In 2000, she opened a bookshop called Modus Legendi in the Primavalle neighborhood of Rome focusing on intercultural and migrant literature. [3] In 2003, Mubiayi began teaching Italian to immigrants with the Association Sociocultural Villa Carpegna and since 2004, she has taught Arabic at the 1° Circolo Didattico "P.Maffi". [1]

Mubiayi's works discuss the experience of second-generation Italians, who are both part of and separated from Italian culture. Her stories evaluate what it is to be Italian in a world where migration, [4] gender and racism differ among cultures. [5] In addition to writing for anthologies, she has published works in the journal Internazionale and served as a translator. [3] In 2004, she was the recipient of the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers for her work "Documenti, prego" which then appeared in the anthology La seconda pelle. She hosts a radio show on Vita Trentina Radio discussing identity. [6]

In 2007, Mubiayi jointly edited and published with Igiaba Scego a series of interviews with Afro-Italian writers about their migration experiences entitled, Quando nasci è una roulette: Giovani figli di migranti si raccontano (When You’re Born It’s a Crapshoot: Young Children of Migrants Tell their Stories). [7] In 2009, she was a featured speaker at the International Women's Day presentation in Capannori with her work, Parole migrate (Words Migrate). [8]

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  2. ↑ Camilotti, Silvia (February 2010). "Intervista a Ingy Mubiayi Kakese" (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Storie Migranti. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Ingy Mubiayi Kakese". Universidad de León, León, Spain: Encyclopedia of Afro European Studies. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Armelli, Paolo (27 April 2015). "Gli immigrati siamo noi. Storie di seconde generazioni e nuovi Italiani". Wired (in Italian). Rome, Italy. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Lombardi-Diop & Romeo 2012, p. 228.
  6. ↑ "Mubiayi, Ingy" (in Italian). Trento, Italy: Il Gioco degli Specchi. 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Brioni, Simone (2016). "Igiaba Scego". London, England: Institute of Modern Languages. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Venerdì 8 maggio la presentazione del libro 'Parole migrate' di Ingy Mubiayi Kakese" (in Italian). Capannori, Italy: Comune di Capannori. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Fuori casa" (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Nuovi Argomenti. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

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