Borgo Boreano, town of Venosa, Province of Potenza (Basilicata)

2009
a group of workers from Burkina Faso occupies some abandoned farmhouses after being chased from PSG

2011
Boreano is joined by a growing community of African workers chased from neighbouring sites (predominantly PSG and Grotta Paradiso).

2014
pressured by public authorities, owners decide to destroy a series of occupied buildings, with the clear intent to stave off African immigrants.

2015
despite the destruction of other habitats, the ghetto continues to grow in size

30.9.2015
a Ghanaian worker named Peter Emmanuel Kyeremeh commits suicide in one of the shacks, finding it impossible to bear the circumstances;
not finding any relatives to dispose of the body, local volunteers bury him in a nearby cemetery

“I have gone to Boreano and come back… There is no work there for me. I was only hanging out, drinking and spending money, so I decided I cannot stay there. I decided Boreano is not safe for life.”

early 2016: a fire destoys part of the ghetto

2016
by decree of the mayor of Venosa, the site of Boreano is destroyed on 22 June 2016