systematically, with the collaboration of the missionaries present on the different fields. In 1987, some political and Vatican leaders urged him to leave the direction of "Nigrizia". He was practically fired. At that time Zanotelli faced continuous attacks, but the goal was to undermine the growth and diffusion of the recently born movement he had inspired. He denounced publicly the senior Italian political leadership of the time, including Giulio Andreotti, Giovanni Spadolini, Bettino Craxi and Flaminio Piccoli. He actually anticipated the Tangentopoli season. In January 1985 he published in the magazine an editorial titled “The Italian face of African famine”, an open and cutting exposure of the system around Third World aid. He commented that Tangentopoli could be exposed then, they had all the clues. From African famine he passed on to the arms trade and environmental problems, and exposed what he regarded as the entanglement between the political class and business. Spadolini on the ’Espresso magazine, attacked heavily the so-called red priests, to the point of accusing him of incitement to political delinquency and international terrorism.” The period 1985-87 resulted in a hard time, with part of the Vatican hierarchy and of the "old missionaries" trying to bend him or expel him. Zanotelli described it as "a time of great personal suffering" which led him to a spiritual crisis and to doubting: "Am I really sure I told the truth? Can it be possible 50 million Italians are unable to see these scandals?” His cultural heritage has passed on to the following directors and editors of the magazine, and still keeps "Nigrizia" alive. Korogocho, or Hell on earth In the local language the name Korogocho means confusion, chaos. Zanotelli stayed in Korogocho, one of the many shantytowns surrounding Nairobi, (Kenya), until 2001. He founded many small Christian communities and a workers' cooperative for recycling, which employed many of the inhabitants of the shanties; he urged and helped in the Udada project, a community of former prostitutes involved in helping the women who wanted to change their life and at the same time he was working and struggling for the reforms about land distribution, one of the turning points in Kenyan politics. In Korogocho human degradation was frightful and Zanotelli's assumption "Maybe God is sick" became the title of a book on Africa, written by Walter Veltroni, former secretary of the Italian DS party (Democratici di Sinistra, Democrats of the