Campania d'Africa

Francesco Alesi | 2010 | Italia | 7'

Castel Volturno is a city of 25000 inhabitants far 40 km from Naples and has the record to be the city with the tallest percentage of Africans in Europe. According to the official statistics only the 10% of the inhabitants are African, but according to the Caritas center, that assist the foreigners in difficulty, they are are between the 10000 and the 15000. Primarily sub-Saharan, males, young people, poor and clandestine, the Africans live in the suburbs degraded of the city. They wake up at 4:30 in the morning to take the first bus from Castel Volturno and hope that someone recruits them for 25 Euros a day. For the Italian Government "they are the clandestine ones to repatriate", while the writer Roberto Saviano holds them a "wealth for Italy".
In 2008 the African South singer Miriam Makeba died in Castel Volturno in conclusion of her last concert; "She died in Africa" has commented by her relatives.