Ingy Mubiayi

Ingy Mubiayi
Born	Ingy Mubiayi Kakese 27 June 1972 Cairo, Egypt
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	writer, language teacher
Years active	2000-present
Known for	migrant narratives

Ingy Mubiayi (born 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 1972^[1] in Cairo, Egypt to a Congolese father and Egyptian mother and lived there until she was four years old. Moving to Rome, 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]

Selected works

• Mubiayi, Ingy (2004). "Documenti, prego". In Sangiorgi, Roberta. La seconda pelle (in Italian). Bologna, Italy: Eks & tra. OCLC 606497351.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2005). "Concorso". In Capitani, Flavia; Coen, Emanuele. Pecore nere: racconti (in Italian) (1st ed.). Rome, Italy: GLF editori Laterza. ISBN 978-8-842-07797-8.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (March 2005). "Fiori e scarafaggi". Nuovi argomenti: Fuori casa (in Italian). l'Istituto Grafico Tiberino, Rome, Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore Spa (29): 108–115.^[9]
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2005). "La famiglia". In Scego, Igiaba. Italiani per vocazione (in Italian). Fiesole, Italy: Cadmo. ISBN 978-8-879-23331-6.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2005). "Rimorso". In Gnisci, Armando. Allattati dalla lupa: scritture migranti (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Sinnos editrice. ISBN 978-8-876-09051-6.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (June 2005). "L'incontro". El-Ghibli (in Italian). 2 (8).
• Scego, Igiaba; Mubiayi, Ingy (2007). Quando nasci è una roulette: giovani figli di migranti si raccontano (in Italian). Milan, Italy: Terre di mezzo. ISBN 978-8-861-89007-7.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2008). "Nascita". In Capitani, Flavia; Coen, Emanuele. Amori bicolori: racconti (in Italian) (1st ed.). Rome, Italy: GLF editori Laterza. ISBN 978-8-842-08578-2.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2008). "Uno sguardo al "contrario": l'ironia come strategia letteraria". In Camilotti, Silvia. Lingue e letterature in movimento : scrittrici emergenti nel panorama letterario italiano contemporaneo (in Italian) (1st ed.). Bologna, Italy: Bononia University Press. ISBN 978-8-873-95417-0.
• Mubiayi, Ingy (2009). Parole migrate (in Italian).^[8]

References

Citations

1. "Ingy Mubiayi Kakese" (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Apollo 11. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
2. Camilotti, Silvia (February 2010). "Intervista a Ingy Mubiayi Kakese" (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Storie Migranti. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
3. "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" (in Italian). Rome, Italy: Wired. 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. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
8. "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.

Sources

• Lombardi-Diop, Cristina; Romeo, Caterina (6 December 2012). Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-28147-0.