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Dickens Olewe meets a new generation of black Italians fighting to claim their place in a society that’s still very white – among them the rapper Tommy Kuti, whose work explores his Afro-Italian identity, the writer Igiaba Scego, whose parents grew up in one of Italy’s African colonies, and Michelle Francine Ngonmo, one of the founders of Milan’s Afro-Fashion week. These young black activists are coming of age in the midst of the migrant crisis and the rise of the political right. Born and bred in Italy, they feel deeply Italian but are not always recognised as such.