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A route within the Soluch (Suluq) concentration camp, which had circa 20.123 Libyan prisoners by 1931. Soluch is one of 19 concentration camps established by the Italian authorities on the orders of General Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955), who...

In 1935, Renato Micheli composed the song 'Faccetta Nera' (Pretty/little black face) to commemorate the invasion of Ethiopia. The lyrics recount the liberation of a young Ethiopian woman from slavery by a fascist Blackshirt. This march, very...

Ethiopian painting depicting the Battle of Gondar (13–27 November 1941) during the last stages of the East African Campaign in WWII. After the fall of Amba Alagi in May 1941 and Jimma in July, Gondar was the last of the major strongholds...

Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Abyssinia, with Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford (left, 1882-1972) and Colonel Orde Wingate (right, 1903-1944) in Dambacha Fort, after it had been captured, 15 April 1941.

The Cinema Impero, an example of Italian rationalist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea (1937). The city of Asmara, the current capital of Eritrea, was reshaped as a ‘little Rome’, with a process of urbanization and modernization characterised...

Cover for the article 'A Makallè (1896) L'Uscita del presidio dal forte' (2 February 1896) appeared on the newspaper La Tribuna Illustrata (Anno IV, N. 5). During the first Italo-Ethiopian war, the Italian fort of Mekelle was sieged by the...

Italian prisoners of war at Harar, capital of the Ethiopian province of the same name. The soldiers, made prisoners during the First Italo-Ethiopian War, are awaiting repatriation to Italy. The picture was taken in March 1897 by the second...

The governor of Libya Italo Balbo (1896-1940) welcomes Italian Colonists in Tripoli, Libya (November 1938). Fascism encouraged settler colonialism in the conquered territories.

Italo Balbo (1896-1940), governor of Libya between 1934 and 1940.

Italo Balbo (1896-1940) and Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) during a gala evening in Libya. The appointment of Balbo as governor of Libya was, in reality, a move to exile him over fear that his popularity in Italy could threaten Mussolini’s...