Publications Archive

That Shadow Behind Us

Created for Harrisho ("sun" in Amharic), this impactful book documents Ayzoh!’s collaboration with a prison rehabilitation project in Hawassa, Ethiopia. It highlights the establishment of a social enterprise within the prison, offering inmates meaningful opportunities for personal and economic empowerment.

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Waga Studio Project

"Waga Studio" documents Ayzoh!’s successful photography and art initiative in Gounghin, Ouagadougou. Demonstrating how creative expression fosters innovation and social change in marginalized communities, this publication highlights the transformative potential of art in social development.

Brazil Cultour Project

Ouro Preto

Produced with Ayzoh!’s Brazilian partner Cultour, this moving short tells the story of a grassroots organization in Ouro Preto. They’ve reclaimed a former gold mine—once worked by enslaved children during Portuguese colonization—and turned it into a place of memory, healing, and education. Preserving truth, and transforming history, one story at a time.

Italy Museo della Marineria Project

Museo della Marineria di Cesenatico

The Museo della Marineria in Cesenatico tells the Adriatic’s working-sea story through boats, tools, and voices from the port. Start in the indoor section, built like an old shipyard, where you walk among restored hulls and learn how crews built, rigged, and fished. Then step outside to the floating section on the Leonardesque canal port, where ten historic boats lie at moorings, with colorful “vele al terzo” sails raised in summer.

Italy Museo della Marineria Project

Il Viaggio del Presepe

In Cesenatico, the Presepe della Marineria turns the canal port into a floating Nativity. Life-size wooden figures, over fifty, stand on boats from the Maritime Museum and tell the Christmas story in seafaring style. You see sailors, fishermen, and net menders alongside the Holy Family. At night, thousands of lights reflect on the water. Each winter, from late November into early January, you walk the harbor and watch it glow.

Afar Textiles Project Ethiopia

Tesfa / Progetto Continenti

Progetto Continenti is a Rome-based nonprofit founded in 1989. It works in settings marked by poverty and social fragility, supporting long-term development with local partners. In Italy, it also runs global citizenship education and public awareness activities. Its approach rests on three pillars. First, it backs self-development, so communities lead their own progress. Second, it builds partnerships with local organizations and institutions, strengthening them so projects continue after outside support ends. Third, it involves beneficiaries from the start, so people help define goals, plans, and actions, not only join later.

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We Are Nebua

"We Are Nebua" captures the essence of Afrobloomy (formerly Nebua World), a dynamic community founded by Aida Aicha Bodian in Paris. Ayzoh!’s publication amplifies diverse voices, promoting entrepreneurial, social, and cultural opportunities for Afro-descendant women and their allies.

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I Corpi Barricati

Inspired by Emmanuel Edson’s theater piece, this book showcases Ayzoh!’s involvement in performance art as resistance. It questions societal pressures to categorize identity, emphasizing theater’s profound ability to challenge perceptions and affirm human dignity.