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Title: | 'That is why we have trouble': the 'pro-Italia' movement's challenge to nationalism in British-occupied Somalia (1946-9) |
Author: | Urbano, Annalisa |
Year: | 2016 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 323-344 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Somalia |
Subjects: | decolonization nationalism UN 1940-1949 |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853716000311 |
Abstract: | Postwar politics in British-occupied Somalia is usually reduced to the activities of the Somali Youth League, the foremost anticolonial nationalist movement. However, by 1947, smaller associations, pejoratively nicknamed the 'pro-Italia', came together in an effort to return Somalia to Italy under international mandate. Drawing upon new archival sources, the article argues that this movement did not stem from arguments supporting colonial rule, but rather from objections to the nationalist agenda and military occupation. Closer attention to these voices sheds light on the deeper meanings of political alignment during the change of regime and enhances our understanding of political developments in postwar Somalia. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |