THE EMBLEMATIC PROFILE OF A WOMAN STRUGGLING AGAINST APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA.

 

 

 

At the beginning of the Sixties, in order to escape the apartheid’s atmosphere of violence, Lindiwe and her husband, Bongani, decide to leave South Africa to save themselves and to carry on the fight against racial segregation. In a world that doesn’t even strive to pronounce her name as «too difficult», Lindiwe becomes Ruth, losing her own identity.After more than thirty years finally comes the news so much hoped for: « South Africa is getting into the democracy era». It’s 1994, Ruth is overwhelmed by memories and must recover Lindiwe. Valentina Acava Mmaka expresses the long and hard-fought dialogue between these two women living in the same body, the flashbacks on a past made of violence and injustice, and the efforts to reappropriate the denied identity with a style contaminated by prose, poetry and theatrical writing.