Italian colonial society prohibited Somali men from liaisons with Italian women.

Evidence

According to Osman there was no relation between the two. The Italians considered a relationship between a native man and an Italian woman a serious scandal and felt that they had to defend the purity of their race, ignoring the relationships some Italian men had with Somali women. Consequently, they asked the authorities to expel the waiter from town. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 142