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Interesting video on Italian colonial reckoning

ICYMI, there is an interesting piece on how an Italian-Somali writer became an activist to tell the story of the Italian colonial past.

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2024/01/22
19:00 UTC
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Italian Postcard from 1936 showing the Colonial Police Force with an Italian and African Carabinieri

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2023/10/03
21:55 UTC
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Chinese children at an Italian school in the Italian concession in Tianjin, China - 1930

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2023/06/28
03:57 UTC
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Police headquarters in the Italian concession in Tianjin, China - c. 1930s

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2023/05/28
01:22 UTC
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'Arab prisoners are brought into Tripoli by the Italian Army', Italian Tripolitania - 1915

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2023/04/28
11:16 UTC
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A Tripoli. A great sounding Italian colonial song.

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2023/03/25
12:18 UTC
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Hi folks, first time post and all, but I was wondering if any of you knew what A.M.K-W might mean? This is on a box that belonged to my Grandfather in the 1930s, I believe.

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2023/03/25
07:04 UTC
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'Italian Somaliland Handed Back', newsreel showing the British handing control of Italian Somalia back to Italy - 1950

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2023/03/09
05:55 UTC
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'Get up, get up, I have to wave the sheet! the Italians are coming!', magazine cover depicting an Ethiopian man rousting his wife from bed in order to wave the sheet as a white flag of surrender at the approach of the Italians - 1935

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2023/02/12
06:07 UTC
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Cholera victims carried by Italian soldiers in Tripoli - c. 1911

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2023/01/20
02:56 UTC
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Captured Arabs are lead to their executions by Italian soldiers in Tripoli during the Italo-Turkish War - 1911

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2022/12/21
04:17 UTC
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Libyan soldier in the Italian Army - c. 1920s

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2022/12/06
05:11 UTC
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Italian officers inspect the bodies of fourteen men publicly hanged during the Italo-Turkish War - 1911

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2022/11/24
04:01 UTC
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Italian school notebook with cover art depicting Italian forces freeing Ethiopians - c. 1938

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2022/11/09
05:18 UTC
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Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie arrives in Jerusalem after being forced into exile by Italy's invasion of Ethiopia - 1936

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2022/10/11
07:35 UTC
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'Battle of Adwa', 1970 painting by Ethiopian artist Solomon Belachew depicting Ethiopia's victory over the Italian invading force - 1896

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2022/09/19
05:07 UTC
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'We Will Return!', Italian propaganda postcard calling for revenge after the loss of Italian East Africa - c. 1942

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2022/09/04
09:06 UTC
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Italian colonial propaganda postcard showing Italian children singing with an Ethiopian girl, Second Italo-Ethiopian War - c. 1936

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2022/08/25
07:23 UTC
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Eritrean soldiers and their Italian officers in a field hospital during the First Italo-Ethiopian War - 1896

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2022/08/15
11:28 UTC
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Representatives from the Italian colonies in Santa Marinella for Adolf Hitler's state visit to Italy - 1938

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2022/08/02
10:51 UTC
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Italian officers play tennis in front of Fort Elena castle in Italian Libya - 1934

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2022/07/22
10:44 UTC
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini enters the city of Benghazi in Italian Libya - 1937

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2022/07/06
10:11 UTC
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Benghazi, Italian Libya - c. 1920s

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2022/06/24
11:01 UTC
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Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visits Italian Libya - 1937

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2022/06/18
10:10 UTC
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'Arabs sharing the soup of the Italians', Italo-Turkish War - 1911

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2022/06/11
10:40 UTC
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Italian soldiers departing for Somalia chat with a priest - 1935

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2022/06/02
10:32 UTC
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Askari troops being reviewed by the colonial governor in Italian Somaliland - 1934

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2022/05/31
11:08 UTC
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Italian colonial propaganda postcard showing children in colonial uniforms feeding Ethiopian children - c. 1936

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2022/05/28
11:35 UTC
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