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Title:The assumption of 'a-colony-equals-to-a-nation' and the political accident of Eritrea
Author:Abbay, AlemsegedISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione
Volume:61
Issue:2
Pages:159-188
Language:English
Geographic term:Eritrea
Subjects:colonial history
decolonization
national identity
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40761853
Abstract:The Italian 'civilizing mission' in Africa was qualitatively different from that of the British and the French. Unlike in the British and the French colonies, in Italian Eritrea market forces did not penetrate the peasant world and the Italians did not give their colonial subjects as much and as good an education as did the British and the French. Nor did Eritreans have access to the printing press, which could have helped them imagine their Eritrean 'patria'. Consequently, whereas in the rest of Africa the transition from a colonial status to nationhood was a foregone discussion due to the slippage of the educated elite from compradors to nationalists, the Italian colony of Eritrea could not stand on its own. Most of its enlightened elite favoured unity with Ethiopia. Notes, ref., sum. in French and Italian. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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