Marco Aime teaches Cultural Anthropology at the University of Genoa. Author of studies on alpine populations and Africa, he has published numerous essays on anthropological studies. Among the latest at Bollati Boringhieri: Timbuctu (2008), Culture (2013), The island of no arrival. Voices from Lampedusa (2018) and, with Andrea De Georgio, Il grande gioco del Sahel (2021).