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1. 1. Un Bambino Nero

   

   A lyrical memoir of childhood in a West African village, following a boy who moves between the rhythms of family life, traditional craft and initiation rites, and the pull of formal schooling; vivid scenes of his father’s metalwork, village ceremonies and the natural landscape chart his awakening to identity, cultural values and the tensions between ancestral customs and the demands of modernization.

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