Stories of Africans in Spain to celebrate Africa Day

Casa Africa and Binter organise for tomorrow, Tuesday, from 6.30 p.m., a free film screening at the Elder Museum of Science and Technology. The screening is held in collaboration with the Government of the Canary Islands and the Women's Foundation for Africa and includes the showing of the fictional work Black Diamonds, by Miguel Alcantud, and the documentary Apples, chickens and pipe dreams, by Ines Paris. These two works address the presence of Africans living in Spain from very different perspectives.

Black Diamonds, is a film that shows us the story of Amadou and Moussa, captured in Mali by a scout, separated from their families and brought to Madrid to succeed. They arrived in Europe from Africa when they were 15 years old with the promise that they will be football stars. A tour of Spain, Portugal and northern Europe teaches them first-hand the shadows of the so-called "beautiful game", a business that stops treating them like children to see them as "Black Diamonds".

Apples, chickens and pipe dreams, a project directed by Inés París and produced by the Women's Foundation for Africa which seeks to give a voice to African women in Spain, a group that is separated and forgotten from which we get little information or when it reaches us it is stereotyped. Its primary objective is to clarify the term identity through the experiences and testimonies of several generations of girls with African mothers brought up in Spain.