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Who are you? In an attempt to give an answer to this question, Ribka Sibhatu, Italian writer and essayist of Eritrean origin, presents the history of her homeland in her current city, Rome. In her imaginary trip backwards through her memories, she is accompanied by a young Italian man, who shares her same interest in […]

The chance discovery of a box of photographs taken in Italian East Africa in the 1930s by a distant relative raises more general considerations on the imperial gaze, on its construction of the Other and elsewhere, and on its legacy. In a narrative that intertwines personal reflections and collective history, shared by colonizers and colonized, […]

Kaha Mohamed Aden, an Italian writer of Somali origin, narrates her memories of Mogadishu, her hometown, and reconstructs its story in Pavia, where she currently lives. The capital city of Somalia is divided into five main streets, with each corresponding to different historical periods. The ‘fourth road’ symbolizes the actuality of civil war, but also […]