“Europe for Africa, Africa for Europe”. The work of Paolo D’Agostino Orsini di Camerota

This essay, which is also based on archival sources, aims to reconstruct the concept of Eurafrica in the work of the Africanist Paolo D’Agostino Orsini di Camerota. It is a problematic and therefore non-linear path. Its conception was initially anchored to propaganda intentions in support of the fascist regime and therefore ready to support a primitive position of disparity between the two continents, the result of ideologies praising the superiority of the white race. After World War II, through a complex cultural and evaluative process, which, however, well expressed the difficult reasons for the change of perspective, this position switched: it was now necessary to have Euro-African cooperation on a level of full equality, projected towards the construction of the United States of Africa.