Contacts: Prejudice from Overseas

From: But We Built Roads for Them

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In this chapter, Filippi examines how Italian media and propaganda constructed a “civilizing” narrative to justify colonial expansion across Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, and Ethiopia from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

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Francesco Filippi

Francesco Filippi is a historian and educator who specializes in the relationship between memory and the present. He is co-founder of Deina, an association that organises trips of memory and training courses all over Italy. Filippi is the author of five books including the Italian bestseller Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good (Baraka Books 2021). He lives in Trento, Italy.