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Candice Whitney

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Candice Whitney

Candice Whitney is a writer, leadership coach, and international education professional based in the New York City area. She is currently co-translating Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi in collaboration with Barbara Ofosu-Somuah. As a Fulbright Scholar to Italy in 2016–17, she wrote about African women's entrepreneurship, racial politics, and privilege. She received her BA in anthropology and Italian from Mount Holyoke College.

Articles by Candice Whitney

“A Scream That Can No Longer Be Held In”: Translating Rahma Nur’s “Linguistic Threads”

By Candice Whitney, Alta L. Price & Barbara Ofosu-Somuah

Linguistic threads. IV lines and blood cells. Oppressive silencing. There is a viscerality that emerges when sitting with Rahma Nur’s poem “Fili Linguistici.” In describing her experience as…

Linguistic Threads, translated by Candice Whitney

Afro-Italian poet Rahma Nur describes her experience as a member of a diaspora living in Italy, noting how language marks the body and how it shapes one’s sense of loss.In the step that you takeBetween…

Translated from Italian by Candice Whitney

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Afro-Italian Women in Translation: An Introduction

By Candice Whitney, Barbara Ofosu-Somuah, Aaron Robertson & Hope Campbell Gustafson

What is national literature and how is it defined? Often, when one thinks of a particular nation or language, they imagine a specific phenotype tied to a historical narrative. A cursory Google search…

Soumaila Sacko: Story of the Good Life

But if you drink and breathe and sweat and love in a country that is no longer yours, then you are not a migrant. You are a man.

Translated from Italian by Candice Whitney