Valentina Acava

Io... donna... immigrata... (I...immigrant...woman...) is a play that has been staged in Italy, France, Congo, Kenya, South Africa.

The performance has been on stage in 2013 in Italy and in the early days of 2014 received the sponsorship of Amnesty International Italia for its value in promoting awareness on female genital mutilation using art.

A selection of her stories was published in 2013 on the 2nd issue of Italian Studies of Southern Africa Journal (UNISA - Pretoria 2013).

Her novel Cercando Lindiwe was chosen by Prof. Antonella Piazza of the Department of Italian Studies of UNISA-Pretoria for her comparatistic work: "The issue of Identity in Cercando Lindiwe by Valentina Acava Mmaka and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi" which was presented for the first time in occasion of the 1st Colloquium of Italian Studies at UNISA/Pretoria in September 2011.

Her monologue "Farida" has been published in the collection Time to say NO, edited by Philo Ikonya and Helmuth Niederle by Austrian PEN Club.