Abstract
The recognition of inadequate debate on Italian colonialism in postwar Italy is by no means a novelty. Many Africanist scholars including Angelo del Boca, Nicola Labanca, and Alessandro Triulzi have discussed the various factors that may have contributed to this lacuna in research and debate. Due to the unique way in which Italian colonies achieved independence (not from any battle for colonial freedom, but rather, because of the conditions of Italy’s defeat in the Second World War) a postwar decolonization denouncing Italy’s wrongdoings in Africa has only taken place in the last four decades. While countries such as France and Great Britain were compelled by various factors and through various means to acknowledge their colonial histories, postwar Italian governments, Angelo Del Boca remarks, evaded their duty to acknowledge their offenses and deliberately obstructed the reality of the situation (2003, 18). He expands on this notion by referring to the fifty-volume L’Italia in Africa (1952) a publication, endorsed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose objective was to praise the efforts of Italian colonialism (2003, 18).
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