ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Dell'Udzungwa mountains, south-central Tanzania.
Are 9920 kilometers in 38 hours of travel I have traveled by plane, jeep and on foot to get from Watoto wa Mateso.
The watoto Mateso wa, wa Shetanis, children's pain, the devil, is an unknown tribe consists of more than 1500 people, confined for about eighty years to 2400 meters, in the forest. They were isolated and expelled from the region dell'Iringa, from the tribe of WaHehe, just because suffering from a rare form of epilepsy, as they now unknown. Because of the reactions provoked by epilepsy were considered possessed by demons and why killed and expelled. Consequently it took refuge more and more in inaccessible forests of the nearby mountains. And so they continued to live without any temporal dimension. The future does not exist, everything is considered and it is measured as of the present moment.
The intensity of the rain, as the hands of a clock marking the seasons, so the work of the fields and the kifafa, disease, defines the time of life. Every gesture, every ritual is sacred and therefore interpreted by baba Mkubwa, the village chief and healers-sorcerers.
The cause generating the kifafa, is a parasite that creates a serious brain infection, produces seizures which in turn not being treated, causing falls with its consequences, to those affected. In addition there are genetic causes due to inbreeding and strong alcohol abuse.

AUTHOR
Romina Remigio, born in Ortona (ch) on 26.04.1982, graduated in Media and Mass Communication, photojournalist and freelance journalist member of the Order, he has been taking care of the social and cultural reportage, creating works that led to spin much. In 2006 he obtained a Master in Journalism of the "School of Photography and Integrated Communication" of Rome.
He has worked with Grace Blacks, the Associated Press and other international agencies. His love for Africa, led her to establish itself as an observer and expert in international cooperation and of economic, social and religious of the continent Africa. For seven years she has lived for most of the year in east Africa, in Tanzania.
In February 2010 he published a book of photographs: "I CARE TANZANIA, [stories of life given]", whose proceeds went entirely to projects of the Consolata missionaries. Since June 2010 is engaged in a tour book promotion cha exceeded 9,500 copies sold in Italy and will be subsequently printed in other countries in the world.
His reportage I'AM ALBINO ranked third at the 38th International Prize Aternum (2010) In July 2011 he won the prize "As Mother" of the international photography festival "Face Photo News" of Sassoferrato. His latest work on a still unknown tribe of Tanzania "TRIBE NO NAME", won the Special Prize of the International Festival Face Photo News, 2013, the 41st International Portfolio Aternum 2013 and "Silver Award FIOF 2014" category History. In February 2015 he won a scholarship "ROLANDO FAVA" dedicated to social reportage School Graffiti in Rome, one juror was Gianni Berengo Gardin.

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