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Igiaba Scego takes on the troubled history of the popular Mussolini-era song "Faccetta nera" in an essay confronting Italy's colonial history.
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The True Story of “Faccetta Nera” Igiaba Scego takes on the troubled history of the popular Mussolini-era song "Faccetta nera" in an essay confronting Italy's history of colonialism and Fascism. “I was on a TV talk show the other day, and something curious happened.” Those are the opening words of a Facebook post that Maryan Ismail, an Italo-Somali political activist, published recently. The curious thing that happened occurred in a television studio. Maryan, who is a longtime political activist working in Milan, has made up her mind to express her defiance of racism by speaking open...