In Asmara, modernism was an aggressively colonial endeavour

The city was transformed for a practical purpose—to be used as a launchpad for the Italian invasion of Ethiopia—and for a propagandistic one. Benito Mussolini sought an African empire to give his “will to power and domination” material expression. This Nietzschean creed was built into Asmara’s streets, and written into its architecture

In Asmara, modernism was an aggressively colonial endeavour

An architectural marvel, baked in a moral vacuum

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