2015: Refugee crisis - the Malian poet who got asylum
Poverty in Mali's capital city Bamako drives many to the extremes (Photo: EC - Audiovisual Service)
Soumaila Diawara was the leader of a far-left wing youth movement in Mali in 2012.
Three years later he was granted asylum in Italy, where he now works as an interpreter for a prefecture in Rome.
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He also teaches school kids about migration and has published two books of poetry in Italian.