Ciyaal missioni e la stolen generation somala: la violenza nell’incontro coloniale e religioso

Abstract

The presence of Italian clerics in Somalia, both during direct colonial rule and during the United Nations fiduciary mandate, had a substantial impact on the population. Religious staff ran schools for Italian-Somali students without Italian citizenship who were barred from entering the Italian school and Italian nuns took care of orphanages for Italian-Somali children abandoned or torn from their families. Among the texts in Italian that deal, even if only marginally, with the theme of religious schools in Africa, we certainly find the postcolonial novels written in Italian by Somali and Italo-Somali authors. In the light of what, at least apparently, appears to be a characteristic of postc..