Video interview with writer and director, Marie Reine Toe burkinabé, nata a Abidjan in Costa d'Avorio. Dopo aver trascorso parte dell'infanzia in Cina, dove la sua famiglia si era trasferita per seguire l'attività diplomatica del padre, André Toe ambasciatore dell'Alto Volta, torno in patria e vive l'esperienza della rivoluzione di Thomas Sankara. Risiede in Italia dal 1991. È stata attrice di fiction RAI, giornalista (Skytg24, Informazione e lavoro, Edizioni Paoline 2007) e attualmente si occupa dello sviluppo di un progetto per combattere la malnutrizione infantile.
Nel video ci racconta il perché del suo ultimo romanzo "Il mio nome è Regina" edito da Sonzogno.
"MI CHIAMO MARIE REINE JOSIANE MAANDINIMA TOE. JOSIANE, PER MIA MADRE.MAANDINIMA, PER MIA NONNA. REINE, REINE ONLY FOR MY FATHER. MARIE TO ALL OTHERS. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE. As much as the names they had. But it is my African name Maandinima I want to talk. "
If a coup suddenly changes the life of a country, it can happen that a nine year old girl must come to terms with history. This is what happens to Little Marie Reine Toe when Thomas Sankara seized power in Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. His father, André Toe, is a senior official of the old regime Saye Zerbo and is the victim of the excesses of the Revolution. It's the end of childhood Marie Reine sweet and golden, but also the beginning installment in the adventure from the suburbs of Ouagadougou the lead in Italy. The discoveries are continuing at a frenetic pace, which pulses like the blaring music of nightclubs where the beautiful Marie Reine worked as a Cubist. Friendship, love, the excess will be familiar with the most hidden of this new world, until the pride to take back their lives in the burst to make it start again.
Vera and touching, full of unexpected twists, that's his story.
For more information:
http://www.mariereinejosianetoe.it
http://www.sonzognoeditori.it/romanzi/libro/4541489-il-mio-nome-e-regina
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