The main objective is that of training and introduction to the knowledge of the historical events of Italian colonial Africa. The course includes a first part dedicated to colonization in the liberal age, its international contextualization, the colonial impact. A second part relating to colonization in the Fascist era with particular attention to forms of repression, judicial and educational policies, racism and demographic colonization. Emphasis will be placed on the use of documentary sources for oral history and, more generally, on the research methodology. The course aims to give a general knowledge of the history of the two areas taken into consideration, of its problems today, in a perspective of historical understanding of different cultures.