Cristina Ali Farah 
Before leaving, my father spins around him the perfume bottle and check the mirror combing afro is in place. This is how I see the reflection of his dismay at my sudden enthusiasm: Dad, I say, now I know what I am, I have called Mision. In Somalia, Mision was a term used to refer to the Italian Somalia in the pejorative sense, but then I did not. And not even know it was linked to the Catholic missions, in which colleges grew many children, the children of Somali mothers and fathers who do not Italians recognize them. Tell a witness: "They were those of the vicarage with a list of names to be allocated. Our mothers trust us because they were women without means, they wanted to settle down and were discriminated against by the same Somali society. The colleges were terrible, it was not just us, but many children orphans. " About a month ago was released a lengthy report dedicated to the "forgotten children of Italy on the occasion of a bill of the Ministry of the Interior received compensation to the Italian Somali victims of discrimination. What does it mean for a state to recognize a sum of money as compensation for the harmful effects produced by the History on the lives of individuals? What criteria is offered an indemnity for certain crimes and not others? The gas used to subdue the Ethiopians are perhaps of less serious physical and psychological violence of the sisters? Rework the Italian colonial past without incurring a simplistic rhetoric remains ambiguous and essential. Put the past into the present is a political issue even more than history, on which our common future.
Before leaving, my father spins around him the perfume bottle and check the mirror combing afro is in place. This is how I see the reflection of his dismay at my sudden enthusiasm: Dad, I say, now I know what I am, I have called Mision. In Somalia, Mision was a term used to refer to the Italian Somalia in the pejorative sense, but then I did not. And not even know it was linked to the Catholic missions, in which colleges grew many children, the children of Somali mothers and fathers who do not Italians recognize them. Tell a witness: "They were those of the vicarage with a list of names to be allocated. Our mothers trust us because they were women without means, they wanted to settle down and were discriminated against by the same Somali society. The colleges were terrible, it was not just us, but many children orphans. " About a month ago was released a lengthy report dedicated to the "forgotten children of Italy on the occasion of a bill of the Ministry of the Interior received compensation to the Italian Somali victims of discrimination. What does it mean for a state to recognize a sum of money as compensation for the harmful effects produced by the History on the lives of individuals? What criteria is offered an indemnity for certain crimes and not others? The gas used to subdue the Ethiopians are perhaps of less serious physical and psychological violence of the sisters? Rework the Italian colonial past without incurring a simplistic rhetoric remains ambiguous and essential. Put the past into the present is a political issue even more than history, on which our common future. 
