Affondo (Awarded Book)

AFFONDO
Edizioni San Paolo
CDU: 95A 115; 80 pagine
€ 9,00 Buy Now

e-book available

Since we find more and more dead bodies or human remains in our nets, we’ve decided to go elsewhere in order to avoid being confronted with these gruesome discoveries (Testimony of a fisherman of Lampedusa Island in Italy )

Every year or every day during this decade, many Africans, young, elders, men, women, entire families coming from Africa try to reach Europe. Many of them die during the journey through the Mediterranean Sea, since they travel in very dangerous conditions without food, compass, water or whatever. Their only one force comes from the hope to find a place where to realize the dream of they life.
Having worked on the African immigration issue in Italy for some international media, and spent time with the immigrants, the author presents through concrete stories of life, what it means for many people to leave their homelands and begin an adventure. This book is also an analytic work on how Western media treat African immigration in Europe; it’s a denunciation of what Africa should do and the hypocrisy which characterizes the management of this sad phenomenon.

“Affondo” through media

• TREFOIL: The Southern African Catholic Magazine n° 281, p.51
• Terre nostre Febbraio 2014, p.13: Immigrazione via Mediterraneo: una emergenza perpetuaTERRE NOSTRE FEB 2014
• La Voce: un grido
• Vivere Assisi.it: Immigrazione e diritti, un libro contro ipocrisia e demagogia
• Terre Nostre.info.it: Presentato il libro “Affondo”, di Jean Baptiste Sourou
• Assisi Oggi.it: Santa Maria degli Angeli, Domus Pacis, libro immigrazione africana
• Il Giornale dell’Umbria: L’immigrazione vista da Jean-Baptiste Sourou
• Radio Vaticana/Orizzonti Cristiani: Punto e a capo
• Affondo _Osservatore Romano
• AFRICA NEWS: Act now to stop migrant deaths in Mediterranean, European and African leaders told
• Gazeta do turismo:EM ROMA NA SALA MARCONI DA RADIO VATICANA LANÇAMENTO DO LIVRO “AFFONDO”
• SARAPEGBE:IL LIBRO “AFFONDO” (Ed. SAN PAOLO) DI JEAN-BAPTISTE SOUROU LANCIATO ALLA SALA MARCONI DELLA RADIO VATICANA
• RADIO VATICANA:”Affondo”, premiato il libro di Jean-Baptiste Sourou che racconta i viaggi della speranza verso l’Italia
• Jeune Afrique_Italie défense d’entrer
• AFRICA NEWS : Affondo – New book denounces ignorance and hypocrisy about immigration. Dr. Sourou: Africa, save your children who are meat for fish in the Mediterranean Sea.
• RADIO VATICANA: Immigrazione e Africa nel libro “Affondo”.
• Città Nuova: Gli Africani, la prima risorsa del continente
• Messaggero S.Antonio: Una lotta per la vita piena
• La Provincia Sondrio: L’immigrazione clandestina, tragedia con tanti colpevoli
• “Affondo” on Grotius.fr
• Articolo 21: Affondo… storie di immigrazione

Launch of Affondo in Rome

Steve Ogongo, Africa News director reports:

Launch of Affondo in Vicenza

Quinto Vicentino Library in Vicenza Province (north-east of Italy) hosted the first launch of “Affondo”. It was in the evening of Monday 23th may. Many people attended the event among them some local politicians, in order to know why the author has written the book on African illegal immigration in Europe, especially in Italy After the introduction done by Mr. Tarcisio Bellò, director of the Library, Ms. Orietta Pozzer, one of the organizers has presented the principal ideas of Affondo. Then it was the question-answers time which took about two hours. People asked so many questions to the author. They made comments and the debate was very interesting. During the refreshment, doctor Sourou signed books, spending more time with the participants.