How Eritrea Became a Nation: Newspapers, Politics and the Struggle for Unity
How Eritrea Became a Nation: Newspapers, Politics and the Struggle for UnityHow did Eritrea's people begin to imagine themselves as part of a single nation?In the 1940s, Eritrea emerged from Italian c...
13 Sep 21min
How Massawa, Eritrea Helped Defeat the Nazis in North Africa
How Massawa, Eritrea Helped Defeat the Nazis in North AfricaIn 1941, the British captured Massawa, Eritrea — only to find one of the most strategically important harbours on the Red Sea deliberately w...
6 Sep 22min
Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial Eritrea
Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial EritreaBetween 1885 and 1941, relationships between Italian men and Eritrean women became deeply entangled with the constru...
23 Aug 23min
Inventing Italian Eritrea Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and the Colonial Imagination
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 Erit...
9 Aug 13min
Episode 2 The Livraghi Scandal (1891) Italy's First Colonial Scandal in Eritrea
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 i...
25 Jul 8min
Episode 1: The Livraghi Scandal (1891) | Italy's First Colonial Scandal in Eritrea
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 go...
18 Jul 19min
The Construction of Racial Hierarchies in Colonial Eritrea
This episode explores one of the most misunderstood aspects of Italian colonial rule in Eritrea. Drawing on the research of historian Giulia Barrera, it examines how racial hierarchy was not an accide...
12 Jul 26min
Voices That Shaped a Nation
What happens when the most influential voices of a nation emerge from places society dismissed?In this episode of the Eritrawi Podcast, we explore Christine Matzke's groundbreaking research on the wom...
5 Jul 21min
