On the occasion of Africa Day of 25 May 2020, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation organized a digital celebration – on the initiative of Deputy Minister Del Re – consisting of the transmission on the YouTube channel “Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Farnesina” of a long video containing about 50 musical contributions and African artists and artists. The video includes institutional messages from the Hon. Minister and VM Del Re, speeches by politicians and African personalities (the South African Foreign Minister Pandor; the Somali President Farmajo, the President of Burkina Faso Kaboré; the former President of South Africa Motlanthe, the UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, the UNECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, etc.). messages from exponents of African diasporas in Italy, belonging to the literary, journalistic and artistic world, are included. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xo0fvMQNs4
Together with the video marathon, the Ministry has set up a virtual photographic exhibition dedicated to Africa, ” Incontri Italia-Africa in obiettivo “, which can be visited on the website and on the Instagram channel of the Farnesina. The initiative collects shots taken by Italian photographers mainly in 2019, on the occasion of the “Italy, Cultures, Africa” event and in collaboration with the Embassies and Italian Cultural Institutes based in Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya , Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. https://www.esteri.it/mae/it/politica_estera/aree_geografiche/africa/giornata-dell-africa-2020
