Ingy Mubiayi Explained

Ingy Mubiayi
Birth Name:Ingy Mubiayi Kakese
Birth Date:27 June 1973
Birth Place:Cairo, Egypt
Nationality:Italian
Occupation:Writer, language teacher
Years Active:2000–present
Known For:migrant 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.

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".

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. In addition to writing for anthologies, she has published works in the journal Internazionale and served as a translator. 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.[5]

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).[6] In 2009, she was a featured speaker at the International Women's Day presentation in Capannori with her work, Parole migrate (Words Migrate).[7]

Selected works

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ingy Mubiayi Kakese. Apollo 11. 20 February 2016. Rome, Italy. it . https://web.archive.org/web/20170510110453/http://www.apolloundici.it/PiccoloApollo/Portico47/Poeti/Mubiayi.html . 10 May 2017 . dead.
  2. Web site: Camilotti. Silvia. Intervista a Ingy Mubiayi Kakese. Storie Migranti. 20 February 2016. Rome, Italy. it. February 2010.
  3. Web site: Ingy Mubiayi Kakese. Encyclopedia of Afro European Studies. 20 February 2016. Universidad de León, León, Spain.
  4. Armelli. Paolo. Gli immigrati siamo noi. Storie di seconde generazioni e nuovi Italiani. 20 February 2016. Wired. 27 April 2015. Rome, Italy. it.
  5. Web site: Mubiayi, Ingy. Il Gioco degli Specchi. 20 February 2016. Trento, Italy. it. 2009.
  6. Web site: Brioni. Simone. Igiaba Scego. Institute of Modern Languages. 20 February 2016. London, England. 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160503062703/http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/igiaba-scego. 3 May 2016. dead.
  7. Web site: Venerdì 8 maggio la presentazione del libro 'Parole migrate' di Ingy Mubiayi Kakese. Comune di Capannori. 20 February 2016. Capannori, Italy. it. 6 May 2009.
  8. Web site: Fuori casa. Nuovi Argomenti. 20 February 2016. Rome, Italy. it.

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