research on italian somalians i appreciate your improvements middayexpress i have done some research on books about the italian somalians and i hope you can find what you need about the catholicism in somalia here it is the exact words in the tripodi book il vescovo di mogadiscio don franco filippini dichiarava nel che vi erano circa somali cattolici frutto del lavoro missionario specialmente nelle aree agricole del giuba e dell'uebi scebeli my translation the bishop of mogadischu franco filippini stated in that there were nearly native somalians of catholic faith consequence of the missions mainly in the agricultural areas of the rivers juba and schebelle if we add that there were italians in somalia in that year and the aproximate population of italian somalia was calculated in there were no exact census we have to agree to what writes tripodi catholics in italian somalia to whom we have to add the temporary italian troops stationed in forts or nearly of the total population of of course there are other calculations of the population of italian somalia without the ogaden but most scholars agree in the range i have written that 'the italian embassy calculated in that most italian colonists used to have illegitimate children with somali women and this fact has created a group of italian somalians with italian roots that now amount to nearly descendants in all somalia' because in page paolo tripodi wrote the following l'ambasciatore italiano considerava l'uso del concubinato un serio problema durante gli anni della colonia un problema che aveva generato secondo lui quasi somali con almeno un nonno o bisnonno italiano negli anni novanta my translation the italian ambassador believed that the wide practice of concubinage during the colonial years had created the problem that nearly somalians had at least one grandfather or a greatgrandfather italian during the nineties sincerely