Ingy Mubiayi Kakese was born on 27 June 1973 to a
Congolese father and Egyptian mother in
Cairo,
Egypt, where she lived until she was four years old. Moving to
Rome, Italy, in 1977, she first attended a French school as her spoken languages were French and Arabic. When her sister was confused by the multi-lingual household, her parents imposed a rule of only speaking Italian and she lost her earlier two languages. Mubiayi attended the
Sapienza University of Rome, graduating with a degree in the History of Islamic Culture. In 2000, she opened a bookshop called
Modus Legendi in the
Primavalle neighborhood of Rome focusing on intercultural and migrant literature. In 2003, Mubiayi began teaching Italian to immigrants with the Association Sociocultural Villa Carpegna and since 2004, she has taught Arabic at the 1° Circolo Didattico "P.Maffi". gender and racism differ among cultures. In addition to writing for anthologies, she has published works in the journal
Internazionale and served as a translator. In 2007, Mubiayi jointly edited and published with
Igiaba Scego a series of interviews with Afro-Italian writers about their migration experiences entitled,
Quando nasci è una roulette: Giovani figli di migranti si raccontano (When You’re Born It’s a Crapshoot: Young Children of Migrants Tell their Stories). In 2009, she was a featured speaker at the
International Women's Day presentation in
Capannori with her work,
Parole migrate (Words Migrate). ==Selected works==