The rubble of empire
Built by Italian Fascists in 1928, Mogadishu Cathedral was meant to symbolize “peaceful conquest.” Today its ruins force Somalis to confront the uneasy afterlife of colonial power and religious authority.
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Claire Dillon
Claire Dillon is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where she specializes in the intersections of visual cultures, identities, and faiths in the medieval Mediterranean and their modern afterlives.