TOAfrica Summer School

🌍 ORIZZONTI SOSTENIBILI

Our series of six interdisciplinary events on the dynamics of contemporary Africa continues!

📘 2nd Event
"Luoghi di frontiera. Tra barriere da abbattere e spazi comuni da costruire"

Inspired by Dionigi Albera’s book "Lampedusa. Una storia mediterranea", it offers a multidisciplinary reflection on borders: marked by tensions and contradictions, but also spaces where new possibilities for justice, hospitality, and coexistence can emerge.

🗓 18 December 2025, 6:30 PM
📍 Binaria - centro commensale, Via Sestriere 34, Torino

Speakers:
• Dionigi Albera
• Piero Gorza, President of OnBorders
• Maddalena Verrone, Movimento Migranti e Rifugiati, Napoli
Chair: Leone De Vita

Organized by CISAO Unito, in collaboration with TOAfrica, DISAFA, and Binaria - centro commensale.

🌍 ORIZZONTI SOSTENIBILI

Last week we held the first event of our new series dedicated to the environmental and social challenges shaping contemporary Africa: “Cacao amaro: filiere globali e responsabilità condivise” 🍫🌍📸👇

It was an inspiring evening of discussion on the social and environmental costs of the cocoa supply chain, and on the shared responsibilities behind what we consume.

A warm thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the conversation. 🙏

Stay tuned for the next appointment in the series on December 18! 📅✨

🎶 TARTIT. Musica e riflessioni dal Mali 🎶

📍🕒 Sabato 4 ottobre, dalle 18.30, presso Jigeenyi (Via Borgo Dora 3/O)

Dal Mali a Torino: il gruppo Tartit, nato in un campo profughi in Mauritania e guidato da Fadimata Walet Oumar (attivista, scrittrice e musicista), porta le sonorità tradizionali kel tamasheq e la sua testimonianza sulla crisi maliana.

👉 Una serata che unisce dibattito, musica dal vivo e convivialità! 🥤🎼🎻

🌍📍 On display at Makerere University in Kampala, the exhibition "Connecting Cultures" celebrates 46 years of ethnographic research in the Great Lakes Region of Africa — through the eyes, voices, and moments captured by researchers in the field.

From past to present, these images speak of interconnections, cultural continuities, and scholarly collaboration across borders 🤝

📸 by:
Marco Sottilotta
Lorenzo D’Angelo
Gilberto Borri
Alessandro Gusman
Amarilli Varesio
Francesco Remotti
Cecilia Pennacini

🌍📌 The workshop “Refugees and Mobility in Uganda” will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2025 at Seminar Room 3D233, Campus Luigi Einaudi (University of Turin)
⌛⏱️ 2 pm
📚🖋️ It brings together scholars from Italian and Ugandan universities to present research on refugee life, displacement, and mobility in Uganda
🖥️ Remote connection available at the following link: https://unito.webex.com/meet/alessandro.gusman

The TOAfrica Summer School offers four FREETORINO scholarships covering your accommodation for the duration of the Summer School 🥰

See the requirements and apply on our website www.toafrica.it 🌍

Secure a discounted spot by applying by May 3 ⏳ 🌍📚🎉

Go check our faculty! Join us in Torino, Italy, between June 16-20! 🌍📚🎉

🌍🎉 The applications for the 2025 edition of the TOAfrica Summer School are now open!

📚 This year’s edition “Cultural and Natural Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies and Practices” will take an interdisciplinary approach to the theme of preserving and promoting the region's rich cultural and natural heritage, exploring how policies, practices, and community-based initiatives can support sustainable development, conservation, and local empowerment.

Applications are open until May 23, 2025, but if you register by May 3 you will get an “early bird discount” on the tuition fee.

🏠 4 “FREETORINO” scholarships covering accommodation are also available.

📍See you from June 16 to June 20, 2025, at the Campus Luigi Einaudi in Turin, Italy!

📩📞For info: www.toafrica.it and [email protected]

✨🏳️‍🌈🔥❤️
Here is our beautiful class of 2024!

Thank you all for your engaging participation and interest!! 🌍

This special and intense week has come to an end! 🌍

We had an amazing edition filled with unique perspectives on South-South migration in Africa and we thank our scholars for their inspiring contributions and our students for their active and precious engagement 💫

Thanks also to our partners: