Exploring Eritrea’s Italian Past | TIME

Exploring Eritrea’s Italian Past

Clara Vannucci looks at the secluded country’s history

via Time: http://time.com/4373937/eritrea-italy/

“Everybody in Italy has someone in his family that lived or worked in Eritrea,” says photographer Clara Vannucci, whose own great-grandfather worked as a doctor in the former colony. And yet, she says, nobody in Italy seems to talk about it today. “At school, we spend a lot of time studying World War II but we didn’t study Eritrea, even though it’s part of the history of our country.”