1st Edition
Debre Libanos 1937 The Most Serious War Crime Suffered by Ethiopia
Biography
Paolo Borruso is professor of contemporary history at the Catholic University of Milan. A scholar of contemporary Africa, he has dealt with Italian and European colonialism, Catholic missions, Ethiopia in the twentieth century, and the processes of independence and crisis in postcolonial Africa. Among his publications: L’ultimo impero cristiano. Politica e religione nell’Etiopia contemporanea (1916-74), 2002; L’Africa al confino. La deportazione etiopica in Italia (1937-39), 2003; Il PCI e l’Africa indipendente. Apogeo e crisi di un’utopia socialista (1956-1989), 2009; L’Italia in Africa. Le nuove strategie di una politica postcoloniale (a cura di), 2015; Debre Libanos 1937. Il più grave crimine di guerra dell’Italia, 2020.
