Maka: Film Screening

Maka is a documentary about Geneviève Makaping — an anthropologist, journalist, and the first Black woman to serve as editor-in-chief of an Italian newspaper. Tracing her migration from Cameroon across the desert and the Mediterranean Sea to her arrival and life in Italy, the film capture both her personal resilience and her reflections on race, migration, and representation. Through an engaging blend of interviews, archival images, and reflective storytelling, the documentary crafts a powerful meditation on visibility, identity and belonging.