Melba's Jammin' wrote:
>
> In article >, "Bob"
> > wrote:
>
> > Barb wrote:
> >
> > > One of the menu items at Safari, the East African restaurant that we
> > > went with Steve to on Saturday was Fettucine Alfredo. I asked the owner
> > > WHY and got a bit of an education about Italian colonies and East
> > > Africa's proximity to Italy. Nice Man probably mumbled again about the
> > > ignorant and geography-challenged Meen-a-soh-tans. He was very gracious
> > > (and so were Steve and Rob explaining it to me, too.)
> >
> > Did he mention that Ethiopia wasn't so much COLONIZED as CONQUERED by the
> > Italians in WWII?
> >
> > Bob
>
> I don't think we talked about Ethiopia -- he's Somali.
> --
> -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Winter Carnival ice sculpture pics
>

Somalia was also colonised in the nineteenth century by the British and
Italians. Many older Somalis still speak/read Italian.