Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside
Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside The narrator, Mwana, is a young man from Bantuland, living in Geneva. Mwana's efforts to find work are fruitless until he lands an internship in an NGO…
Specifikacia Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside
Does Snow Turn a Person White Inside
The narrator, Mwana, is a young man from Bantuland, living in Geneva. Mwana's efforts to find work are fruitless until he lands an internship in an NGO campaigning against racial discrimination. A graduate from a Swiss university, we first encounter Mwana waiting for a bus in the hills of Lugano gazing at a poster calling for "black sheep" to be sent home.
Mwana has one foot in each culture. The team is busy organising a demonstration against the black sheep poster. He sees Swiss society through African eyes, with all its contradictions: its moderation, stunning landscapes and its eccentricities, but also its intolerance and inflexibility.
He also casts a critical eye on his native Africa, the weight of its traditions and beliefs. Is belonging nowhere the price Mwana has to pay for these insights?