Film screening ‘Appuntamento ai marinai’ with director Ariam Tekle

The Centre for Pan-African Studies invites you to the screening of the documentary .Appuntamento ai Marinai

is a documentary that delves into the experiences of second-generation Eritreans born and/or raised in Milan during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Public debates on the experiences of the second generations in Italy have only recently started to emerge, with the underlying assumption that ‘this’ is a new phenomenon. Yet, some of the first cohorts of what we now refer to as ‘Afro-Italians’, have been living in Italy since the late 1970s."Appuntamento ai Marinai"

, brings to light what it was like for children of African migrants to grow up in Milan at a time where migrants we afforded fewer rights, and Eritreans specifically, were not even recognised as asylum seekers despite fleeing a war-torn country. What did it mean to grow up as a Black child in Italy in the ‘80s? Can…