Africa e Mediterraneo

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Gamberi 4, 40037
Italy

Telephone
+ 39 051.840166
Fax
+ 39 051.6790117
E-Mail
redazione@africaemediterraneo.it
E-Mail (2)
progetti@africaemediterraneo.it
Mobile Phone
+39 349.2225101 (Sandra)
Mobile Phone (other)
+39 349.2225100 (Andrea)
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
1992
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Media
General Information
Africa e Mediterraneo is an interdisciplinary quarterly publishing since 1992 on economic, historical and cultural issues in the African context. In the 15 years of its existence, Africa e Mediterraneo has established itself as a field-defining cultural studies journal. Moving from an anthropologically-oriented editorial policy, but constantly referring to other subjects, Africa e Mediterraneo seeks a critical understanding of the global cultural flows and the cultural forms which define Africa in the late twentieth century. As such, the journal presents occasions where cultural and social differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested everywhere from highly localized cultural events, to popular culture or to global consumption and information networks. Artists and well-established scholars of fine arts and social sciences on an international level present some of their most innovative and up-dated work in the pages of Africa e Mediterraneo.
Mission and Objectives

Africa e Mediterraneo seeks to:
establish an international network of scholars committed to research on African traditional arts, contemporary visual arts, and on cultural forms as cinema, photography, television and video, comics, fiction, as well as African modern architecture and museums;
explore the cultural implications of such processes as migration to Europe, the internationalization of visual arts and the African intellectuals' contribution to the debate on global culture.
situate these forms, flows, and processes in their historical and social contexts.

Main Projects / Activities

In 10 years of existence the Africa e Mediterraneo association, in addition to the publication of the journal, has carried on a large series of cultural promotion activities; among the issues faced so far we can include European rights (Manifesta!), causes and conditions for immigration in the enlarged Europe (New arrivals), the research on intercultural actions in Europe (Interculture map) and common values between religions and secular thought (Common Values). Along with these projects we have realised educational materials and methodologies which have been thought as ideal tools to be used in schools.
In order to face these issues in a dynamic and accessible way we have chosen to use comics as main tool of our project. Comics allow indeed to communicate effectively quite complex and disussed topics and may easily involve students by stimulating their curiosity and creativity.

Contact (1) Full Name
Andrea Marchesini Reggiani
Head of the organisation
Sandra Federici
Contact (2) Full Name
Sasso Marconi (BO)