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After a life spent answering other people's questions and curiosities, about her origins, her skin, her opinions, Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti uses writing as a tool to regain her space and expose herself, reveal herself – in her own way, in her own terms, on her own conditions. "And Then Enough is the story of how I came out of my room making real everything I found in books and over the years. A hero's call to which I responded in my own way, never forgetting my story, which began in Rwanda, and the limits found on the streets of Italy. The story of myself, which I only wanted to read, and of a summer that instead changed my life." But it is also the story of her traveling companions, of the experiences that marked her the most, of the protagonists who shared the front lines with her. An essay, a biography, a ballad, a manifesto: the story of her struggle against prejudice, and finally the search for solutions.

Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti: born in Rwanda in 1991, she grew up in the province of Brescia and studied at the University of Trento. In 2015 she moved to Turin, where she attended the Holden School and began to collaborate with many cultural associations. Cultural activist, she is part of the committee "Razzismo brutta storia" and works for radio RBE, where she has her own program in which she talks about books and current affairs. You can also follow her on Instagram: @unavitadistendhal. In 2019, she published her own story in Future. Tomorrow narrated by the voices of today, published by Effequ.

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An excerpt in ENglish published in the Fall issue of the COLUMBIA LITERARY REVIEW. See attached sample.

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Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti is one of the most relevant voices of the new generation of black Italian activists and writers

Espérance Hakuzwimana, born in Rwanda in 1991, managed to escape the brutal 1994 genocide: she is one of the 40 children from an orphanage who were put on a plane before it was too late, and taken to a reception center in the north of Italy.

She was adopted by the Ripanti, an Italian family, and began her new life in a town where her black skin, her hair triggered curiosity and racist comments. The process of understanding who she really was and how to express it required a lot of pain, courage and pride, but since the very beginning Espérance understood she had some powerful allied: first books, and then writing.

AND THEN THAT'S ENOUGH is her beautiful, moving – and very well written – memoir.