Eritrawi Podcast: The Other Side of Eritrea

Eritrawi Podcast: The Other Side of EritreaHistory built from archives, not myths.A research-based history podcast exploring the history, culture, archaeology, and heritage of Eritrea and the Horn of Africa through academic research and historical evidence.Episodes cover Adulis, Italian colonial Eritrea, the British Military Administration, the Eritrean struggle for independence, architecture, archaeology, theatre, music, and the people who shaped Eritrea's history.Beyond propaganda. Beyond stereotypes.Reconstructing the past through what people actually wrote, built, and lived.

Eritrawi Podcast: The Other Side of Eritrea is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 128 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  The Vote Eritrea Was Denied

  Oct 4, 202622 min

  The Vote Eritrea Was Denied Who had the right to decide Eritrea’s future? After the defeat of Italian colonial rule, Eritrea’s fate became the subject of international negotiations. Britain administered the territory, competing powers pursued their own strategic interests, and diplomats debated whether Eritrea should become independent, be partitioned, or be linked with Ethiopia. At the centre of this episode is a striking contradiction. Sylvia Pankhurst, one of Britain’s best-known anti-colonial and human-rights campaigners, documented the dismantling of Eritrea’s industries and infrastructure under British administration. Yet she also became a prominent advocate for linking Eritrea with Ethiopia, presenting it as a historical correction. Inside the United Nations, however, another argument was being made. Pakistan’s representative, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, warned that Ethiopia’s suffering under Italian occupation could not justify deciding the political future of another people. The wishes of Eritreans themselves, he argued, had to be the overriding consideration. Eritreans were consulted, political movements were heard and competing proposals were investigated. But the population was never given a referendum to choose its own political future. In 1950, the United Nations instead chose federation with Ethiopia. The compromise was made in diplomatic chambers rather than at an Eritrean ballot box. The federation came into effect in 1952. Its autonomy was progressively eroded, and in 1962 it was abolished entirely. What followed was a decades-long armed struggle that ended with Eritrean forces taking control of the country in 1991. Then, in 1993, Eritreans finally received the ballot that had been absent four decades earlier: Do you approve Eritrea to become an independent sovereign state? This episode traces the journey from colonial rule and international diplomacy to federation, repression, armed struggle and, ultimately, the vote through which Eritreans formally determined their own political future. Podcast Eritrea | Eritrea Podcast | Eritrean History Podcast | History of Eritrea | Eritrea History #Eritrea #EritreanHistory #EritrawiPodcast #PodcastEritrea #EritreaPodcast #SylviaPankhurst #EritreanHistory #AfricanHistory #HornOfAfrica #SelfDetermination

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  British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa - Eritrea 1941-1947

  Sep 19, 202621 min

  In 1941, British forces took Eritrea from Fascist Italy and inherited an economy built to sustain Italy's imperial ambitions in East Africa. Behind the imposing marble banks and colonial infrastructure was a remarkably fragile system. As British forces advanced, Italian banks received instructions to destroy financial records, safeguard or conceal valuables, and deny the incoming administration a functioning financial system. Yet instead of complete financial collapse, something unexpected happened. Banks reopened. Depositors returned. Money began flowing back into the system. British administrators cut costs, introduced new banking arrangements, moved financial records across an active war zone and even used banking to contain emerging currency black markets. But the greater challenge was food. Italian colonial policy had distorted local production while Eritrea had become dependent on imported supplies. When wartime shipping was disrupted, the new administration discovered that military bureaucracy could not efficiently feed the population. What worked instead was much older. Camel caravans brought grain from Sudan. Traditional Red Sea trading routes connected Massawa and Assab with regional markets. Wooden dhows followed seasonal winds. Existing merchant networks moved food with remarkably little central coordination. Massawa's enormous salt reserves became economic leverage for securing supplies from Ethiopia. British administrators even discovered that attempts at official grain rationing struggled to compete with these informal trading networks, which could often move goods faster and more cheaply. The structures built to project power and permanence had fallen apart. The quiet networks of survival that had existed for centuries barely missed a step. And that raises a question for today: Our economy now depends on centralised digital banking, electronic payments, algorithmic markets and highly optimised global supply chains. If those systems stopped working, what would our equivalent of the camel caravan and the wooden dhow be? This episode draws extensively on Lord Rennell of Rodd's 1948 official account, British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa 1941–1947 , examining British military administration, banking, currency, trade and food supply in Eritrea during the Second World War. #Eritrea #EritreanHistory #Asmara #Massawa #Assab #AfricanHistory #EastAfricanHistory #HornOfAfrica #WWII #WorldWarII #BritishEmpire #ItalianColonialism #ColonialHistory #EconomicHistory #BankingHistory #RedSea #History #HistoryPodcast #EritrawiPodcast

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  How Eritrea Became a Nation: Newspapers, Politics and the Struggle for Unity

  Sep 13, 202621 min

  How Eritrea Became a Nation: Newspapers, Politics and the Struggle for Unity How did Eritrea's people begin to imagine themselves as part of a single nation? In the 1940s, Eritrea emerged from Italian colonial rule into a period of economic crisis, British administration and profound uncertainty over its future. Independence, union with Ethiopia, partition and other possibilities competed for support as Eritreans debated what should come after empire. Drawing on the work of scholar Fouad Makki , this episode explores how vernacular newspapers and a new public sphere transformed that debate. Newspapers carried political ideas beyond a small educated elite, while public readings in markets, cafés and gathering places allowed those ideas to reach communities across the territory. But the Eritrean nation was not born fully formed. The Unionist Party advocated union with Ethiopia, while the Muslim League emerged as a major force for Eritrean independence. Religion, class, regional interests, land, economic hardship and foreign intervention all shaped where people stood. We examine British partition proposals, Ethiopian involvement in Eritrean politics, growing communal violence, the intervention of the United Nations, federation with Ethiopia, and how the gradual destruction of Eritrean autonomy ultimately transformed the political struggle. The story challenges the idea that Eritrean nationalism was inevitable. Modern Eritrea emerged from competing visions of what Eritrea should become—and from the struggle to create a shared national identity across those divisions. And it leaves us with a contemporary question: if shared print media once helped strangers imagine themselves as members of the same nation, what happens when we increasingly consume information alone, through personalized digital worlds? #Eritrea #EritreanHistory #EritreanNationalism #EritreanIndependence #HistoryOfEritrea #AfricanHistory #HornOfAfrica #Decolonization #ColonialHistory #BritishMilitaryAdministration #Ethiopia #UnionistParty #MuslimLeague #EritreanPolitics #Nationalism #PrintMedia #NationBuilding #PoliticalHistory #AfricanNationalism #HistoryPodcast

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  Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial Eritrea

  Aug 23, 202623 min

  Madamato: Italian Men, Eritrean Women — Race, Intimacy and Power in Colonial Eritrea Between 1885 and 1941, relationships between Italian men and Eritrean women became deeply entangled with the construction of race, power and colonial rule in Eritrea. Drawing on the research of historian Giulia Barrera, this episode examines madamato , interracial relationships and the unequal domestic arrangements that developed during Italian colonial rule. Far from existing outside the colonial system, these relationships reveal how intimacy itself could become a site where racial hierarchy was created, negotiated and enforced. During the early military occupation, Italian officers openly lived with Eritrean women, sometimes using the resources and personnel of the colonial army to support these arrangements. The episode explores how local practices such as demoz were appropriated by Italian men while the protections and obligations traditionally attached to them could be stripped away. As Italian settlement expanded, racial boundaries were increasingly maintained through everyday mechanisms: gossip, reputation, social pressure and the policing of relationships between colonizer and colonized. Eritrean women nevertheless exercised agency within these structures, navigating colonial institutions, economic necessity, family expectations and relationships that could last for years and produce children. But the consequences were profoundly unequal. Italian men could leave Eritrea and their families behind with few consequences, while Eritrean women and mixed-race children could face poverty, stigma and uncertain legal status. Questions of paternity, recognition and belonging therefore became central to the colonial racial order. With the rise of Fascism and the invasion of Ethiopia, these contradictions became increasingly intolerable to a regime obsessed with racial separation. What had once been tolerated, and at times effectively incorporated into colonial military life, was transformed into a threat to the imagined racial purity of the Italian empire. By 1937, intimate relationships between Italian citizens and colonial subjects were explicitly criminalized. Through personal stories, colonial records and changing legislation, this episode traces the transformation from the unstable military frontier of the 1880s to the rigid racial regime of Fascist rule. It is a history in which intimacy and exploitation, agency and inequality, private relationships and state power existed simultaneously — challenging the enduring myth of the supposedly “friendly” Italian colonizer. #Eritrea #EritreanHistory #Madamato #ColonialEritrea #ItalianColonialism #ColonialHistory #AfricanHistory #Asmara #HistoryPodcast

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  Inventing Italian Eritrea Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and the Colonial Imagination

  Aug 9, 202614 min

  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 Eritrea through the writings of Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and other early colonial observers. Vivaldi's 1901 memoir offers an unusual perspective: an Italian woman operating within a deeply masculine military colonial environment, constrained by gender in Italy yet granted considerable mobility, status and authority within colonial Eritrea.Drawing on the scholarship of Professor Clarissa Clò, the episode explores how Vivaldi negotiated this contradictory position. She could challenge aspects of the male colonial establishment while remaining fiercely committed to Italian expansion and the racial hierarchy upon which it depended.Her domestic life becomes part of that project. The Italian home, food, architecture and landscape are reproduced in Eritrea as models of the colony's imagined future. Indigenous spaces are interpreted through European categories, while encounters with racial and cultural mixing expose anxieties about maintaining a clear division between colonizer and colonized.The episode places Vivaldi alongside writers including Sibilla Aleramo and Idelfonso Stanga, examining the scientific, ethnographic and aesthetic language through which Italians transformed an inhabited country into a landscape supposedly awaiting Italian order and civilization.It also connects colonial expansion to Italy's "Southern Question." At a time of poverty, social unrest and mass emigration, Eritrea could be imagined as an alternative destination for Italians who might otherwise leave for the Americas. People marginalized within Italy's own class and regional hierarchies could consequently acquire an entirely different status within the colonial system.Through memoirs, architecture, racial pseudoscience, migration and representations of the landscape, this episode asks a larger question: how was the illusion of absolute Italian control over Eritrea constructed on the page, in the home and across the landscape?#Eritrea #EritreanHistory #ItalianColonialism #ColonialHistory #Asmara #AfricanHistory #ItalianHistory #RosaliaPianaviaVivaldi #HistoryPodcast #Colonialism

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