Companies and firms in the “Italian Somalia” (1960-1970),

Settlement, trust administration are important steps on the Italian experience in Africa, mainly in Somalia. Testimony of Italian and thread of these events were the creation of companies and their field of action. The activities of private entrepreneurs should be directed to those areas that proved to be more suitable and convenient, so as to avoid unnecessary effort. It had to be equipped with sufficient financial means and directed by suitably aware of the economic problems that needed to be addressed. The objective of this work, through the analysis of unpublished sources preserved in the Historical Archive of the Bank of Italy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will therefore be to identify the companies, their organization and their actual economic impact on the Somalia area. The work will examine the role played by the Italian firms and companies that were set up in the colonial period and were to continue their operations until Siad Barre’s takeover, when he immediately nat