Italy writes a 60 page memorandum to the league justifying its upcoming inter invasion of ethiopia, basically on the very terms that the league had been laying out for the last two decades. It's this constant suggestion that actually, ultimately they are not going to be able to realize the reforms that creates a kind of racialization of ethiopian liberia. At the end of it, i that black sovereignty itself becomes an impossible vision.
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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