Listen "E21 - DAKAR #2: The person in front of me - A conversation with Laura Zini"
Episode Synopsis
In Ouakam - Dakar, we talk to psychologist and social activist Laura Zini.After living for many years in Western Africa, Laura shares her multiple life stories, from her decision to quit working in "development" projects in Senegal to retrain to accompany migrants in Italy to face the difficulties of integration and possible return to their homelands, from her formative experience working in a psychiatric clinic in Dakar to learning about local healing practices and unlearning some of her western assumptions about mental health and community. Thank you, Laura!Recorded, edited and mixed by Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, with music from Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper, Tidiane Thiam.*with the precious support of Ecoversities
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