Chapter La formazione della classe dirigente somala: la prima coorte di studenti somali dell’Università di Padova (1956-69)
Abstract
This chapter looks at Italy’s scholarship programmes to promote higher education in Somalia. It focuses on a group of Somali students who, in between 1956 and 1969, started their university career in Mogadishu and completed it in Padua. It argues that on the one hand these programmes reflected Italy’s efforts to promote its culture and links with the former colony. On the other, these were also affected by the interaction with Somali students and international actors such as the UN and its agency UNESCO.
Keywords
UNESCO; Somalia; Italy; decolonisation; elite-formationDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0389-0.05ISBN
9791221503890, 9791221503890Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2024Series
Biblioteca di storia, 47Classification
General and world history