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Valentina Acava Mmaka was born in Rome from italian parents with Greek origins and raised in South Africa during apartheid regime. She started working as a free lance journalist reporting from different African countries. After her studies in Human Science she mooved to Kenya where she lived for several years and from where she started her professional commitment as an intercultural mediator collaborating with schools, libraries, and organizations sharing her long African experience elaborating different socio-educational projects for children from pre-school to high school. She runs creative writing workshops for children and adults. She also works with immigrants and actually helds a writing workshop for adults within a program of Art Therapy and a Drama Workshop. For children she teaches a variety of different workshops inspird by the ancient oral African tradition. She is author of several books published in Italy: poetry, L'ottava nota (Prospettiva, Rome 2002); children, Il mondo a colori della famiglia BwanaVal (Kabiliana 2003); Jabuni: il mistero della città sommersa (EMI 2003); I nomi della pace.Amani (EMI 2004); drama I... immigrant woman (EMI 2004); fiction Cercando Lindiwe (Epoche 2007).Her drama "I... immigrant woman to want to say to write" has won the "Prize of the Jury" at the IVth edition of Scena Madre Award for Drama. The three monologue play was staged in Italy, in France with the sponsorship of UNESCO , in Kenya and South Africa. Nowadays it is used as a complementary book in many multicultural university courses.She works also as a translator from English to Italian, one of her latest translations is the award winning children's author Meshack Asare's "Sosu's call" - Il tamburo di Sosu .She is the founder of the new non profit organization Soggetto Nomade based in Italy that promotes multicultural projects for schools and artistical projects sponsoring migrant artists.She is invited in meeting, festivals, universities, schools, libraries to talk about her experience as a writer with a long life experience in Africa and as an intercultural mediator with different skills.
She is the founder of the Kabiliana Educational Project which aims to support different world's areas of sustainable libraries.

Valentina Acava Mmaka was born in Rome from italian parents with Greek origins and raised in South Africa during apartheid regime. She started working as a free lance journalist reporting from different African countries. After her studies in Human Science she mooved to Kenya where she lived for several years and from where she started her professional commitment as an intercultural mediator coll... More