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The Other Side of Eritrea is a podcast dedicated to showcasing the rich history, vibrant culture, and inspiring achievements of Eritrea and its global diaspora.
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How Massawa, Eritrea Helped Defeat the Nazis in North Africa (opens the original)
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How Massawa, Eritrea Helped Defeat the Nazis in North Africa In 1941, the British captured Massawa, Eritrea — only to find one of the most strategically important harbours on the Red Sea deliberately wrecked. Before surrendering, the Italians had scuttled ships across the harbour, destroyed equipment and sabotaged the port’s vital dry docks. At the same time, Rommel’s advance across North Africa was putting increasing pressure on Alexandria and the British Mediterranean Fleet. Massawa suddenly m
Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial Eritrea (opens the original)
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Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial Eritrea Between 1885 and 1941, relationships between Italian men and Eritrean women became deeply entangled with the construction of race, power and colonial rule in Eritrea. Drawing on the research of historian Giulia Barrera, this episode examines madamato , interracial relationships and the unequal domestic arrangements that developed during Italian colonial rule. Far from existing outside the colonial system, these
Inventing Italian Eritrea Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and the Colonial Imagination (opens the original)
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What did Italian colonizers actually see when they looked at Eritrea, and how much of what they described was a projection of themselves?This episode examines the literary construction of Italian Eritrea through the writings of Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and other early colonial observers. Vivaldi's 1901 memoir offers an unusual perspective: an Italian woman operating within a deeply masculine military colonial environment, constrained by gender in Italy yet granted considerable mobility, status a
Episode 2 The Livraghi Scandal (1891) Italy's First Colonial Scandal in Eritrea (opens the original)
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The Livraghi scandal did not end with the arrests—it transformed into one of the most consequential political and legal dramas in modern Italian history. Following Lieutenant Dario Livraghi's capture in Switzerland, the Italian government launched a parliamentary commission to investigate allegations of murder, corruption, fabricated evidence, and abuse in colonial Eritrea. Commissioners traveled to Massawa, interviewed witnesses and victims, questioned military leaders, and uncovered evidence t
Episode 1: The Livraghi Scandal (1891) | Italy's First Colonial Scandal in Eritrea (opens the original)
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1891, the Livraghi scandal became the first major public exposure of Italian colonial atrocities in Eritrea. What began as an investigation into two colonial officials—Lieutenant Dario Livraghi and government prosecutor Eteocle Cagnassi—uncovered a system of corruption, fabricated evidence, extortion, torture, and extrajudicial killings that had operated with near total impunity. Drawing on contemporary newspapers, parliamentary debates, and historical scholarship, this episode reconstructs how
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