La parola e il testo: fonti per la storia dell'Etiopia-Eritrea, secoli XIX-XX

There is a great number of sources for writing 19th and 20th century African history available to historians. Word and text in colonial Eritrea and in 20th century Ethiopia and their interrelation offer a research theme that suggests many new reflections. Recently, my understanding of this issue and my methodological approach have been challenged by a new integrated field work in the area and have been connected to a further historiographical development. In my previous work I rose the question of the interrelation between the word and the text. My interest goes now towards a new narrative discourse that reconfirms the nature of African independent state and the importance of reconstructing its memory. I propose to scholars a new understanding of memories and texts , in the light of a re-reading of sources. Africans reproduce different narratives and react to colonialism by the means of colonialism itself.