Photojournalist and aid worker Lara Ripoll approaches The daily reality of African women In a recent exhibition cocentaina, Africa is a woman include forty colorful images The leading roles are adult women, elderly women and girls caught in their daily lives in rural villages. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, South Sudan and Togo.
Photos are part of his latest book Afrorisms. Africa is a woman (2020), commented by the author ethnographically and geographically dozens words Traditions of 54 countries of Africa and almost all of Western Sahara.
This book is shared with the first volume. Afrorisms. African proverbs with pictures (2017), the pedagogical tool with which Lara Ripoll has selflessly developed this innovative educational and cultural project for schools and rural African communities since 2017. to recover, record, and honor the oral cultures of their ancestors.
Cocentaina Municipal Public LibraryPla de la Font, 10, Cocentaina until December 23 Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 09:30 – 13:30 and 16:00 – 20:00. On Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Afrorisms, educational project
Books Afrorisms. Africa is a woman And Afrorisms. Illustrated African proverbs, It is organized in three languages: Spanish, French and English. education and culture cooperation project namesake afrorismsSince 2017, he has been working with schools, NGOs and civil organizations in Africa to recover, evaluate and register ancestral oral cultures.
Between goals The project shows that students learn on their own to apply, interpret and write the spoken words of their families and communities; that the teacher uses the ancestral wisdom contained in the books and these are used as text material.
Afrorismos is a personal project of Lara Ripoll self-financing, self-directed and altruisticIt is not affiliated with any organization and does not rely on subsidies, partners or donations. Funds required for its development; Book donation to African educational institutionsIt comes from the sale of copies produced by the mothers and fathers of students in Africa, the rental of photographic exhibitions, cultural support activities and handmade textiles.