Now Angelo is forever in the land that he loved and of which he recounted the events, the history and news, the economy and politics, but above all the people.
Angelo is now African life returning in the guise of a plant, growing as unstoppably as the consciousness of this continent develops and will develop, in which, even though he dissects with lucid intelligence the evils and abuses it has suffered, he always found a positive cue, a salvific story, a safety exit.
The journalist (and friend) Angelo Ferrari, who passed away five months ago after a long and arduous battle with an illness of the kind that gives no escape but time, had asked his wife Gabriela and closest friends, who shared his passion for Africa, to be buried in Kenya.
So yesterday, in a touching ceremony officiated by Father Kizito in a not-so-random place, the 'Anita House' in the hills of Ngong, just outside Nairobi, his ashes were buried where the roots of an avocado tree will absorb his ashes and protect his soul.
We like to think that in some way Angelo's ethics, philosophy, and intellectual honesty can have a beneficial influence on the guests of the structure run by the NGO Amani.
In the meantime, his great teaching, that Africa can only be written about if one lives it, and to live it, it is necessary to get to know the people, to meet the real protagonists, the common people who with their stories make up that great, controversial, wonderful mosaic that is this continent.

Angelo Ferrari left us on 2 October 2023 at the age of 63.
For over thirty years he travelled the length and breadth of Africa, as a correspondent and correspondent for AGI Agency, and then continued to follow it from the Italian editorial office.
He wrote countless interesting articles and some twenty books, among which, apart from the latest 'I don't know how it will end' (OgZero) it is worth mentioning 'Le nebbie del Congo' (2011), as well as collaborations with another great Africanist who died prematurely, Raffaele Masto ('Mal d'Africa' and 'Africa Bazaar'). Angelo cultivated friendships and collaborations. With Luciano Scalettari he wrote for Emi "Storie di ordinario genocidio" on the war in Kivu and "Bambini nella guerra", with the undersigned he wrote "La pandemia in Africa" (Rosenberg&Sellier, 2021).
From the notes he left, surely some other page will turn up that will give us relief, nourishment and protect us, like an African plant.