Simon Mol

Interview with Simon Mol

Interviewed by Valentina Acava Mmaka

Born in Rome, Valentina Acava Mmaka grew up in South Africa during the apartheid regime. She is a Journalist, writer, poet and a translator from Kiswahili and English into Italian and a reporter for numerous NGO's on Africa.  She had always been committed to telling the Western world about African with an inside point of view. She has authored: "Il  mondo a colori della famiglia BwanaVal" / The colourful world of the BwanaVal family (Kabiliana, 2003); Jabuni: il mistero della città sommersa/ Jabuni: the secret of the submerged town  (EMI; 2003);

Simon Mol: Football in Africa is a personal and social healing factor

Interviewed by Nicole Selmer of fanguide2006

Nicole Selmer talks to Simon Mol ahead of the World soccer bonanza in German, here are excepts:

N.S: You have the opportunity to compare Europe and Africa, Poland and Cameroon, in many ways – even with regard to football. What, if any, is the difference between football fans in both countries or continents?

"Standstill Moment" at the Bielañski Cultural Centre

The Bielañski Cultural Centre shall host the play Standstill Moment on Wednesday October 26., at 6p.m. The play shall be staged by the Migrator Theatre. We shall have a unique opportunity to encounter a cultural melting pot of African as well as European countries and learn more about the situation, problems and feelings of the actors living in Poland. In view of this coming event, Gazeta Bielañski requested a conversation with the organizer of the whole affair— writer, poet, journalist and Secretary General of the Association of Exiles in Poland – the Cameroonian Simon Mol.

Simon Mol: An Interview

Interviewed by Sulaiman Abdu

With the intention of writing about the circumstances under which African writers have to write and find out how these circumstances can constraint the productivity of African writers, Sulaiman Abdu, a London-based freelance journalist talks to Simon Mol: