Editing Italian East Africa (section)

===Administration===
{{main|List of governors-general of Italian East Africa|List of governors of the governorates of Italian East Africa}}
[[File:Amadeo Aosta3rd 01.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta]], longest serving Governor General of Italian East Africa]]
Italian East Africa was administered by a single administrative unit, the Governo Generale dell'AOI. (GGAOI), with the city of [[Addis Abeba Governorate| Addis Abeba]] as its capital.{{sfn|Mockler|2019}}{{sfn|Sbacchi|1997|p=xii}} The colonial government was overseen by [[Ministry of the Colonies (Italy)|Ministry of Italian Africa]] ({{langx|it|Ministro per l'Africa italiana}}) and was administered by a [[List of Governors-General of Italian East Africa|Viceroy of Ethiopia and Governor General of Italian East Africa]], appointed by the Italian king. [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] consequently adopted the title of "Emperor of Ethiopia". The dominion was further divided for administrative purposes into [[Governorates of Italian East Africa|six governorates]], further divided into forty ''commissariati.''

Fascist colonial policy in Italian East Africa had a [[Divide and rule|divide and conquer]] characteristic. To weaken the Orthodox Christian [[Amhara people]] who had run Ethiopia in the past, territory claimed by Eritrean [[Tigrinya people|Tigray-Tigrinyas]] and [[Somalis]] was given to the [[Eritrea Governorate]] and [[Somalia Governorate]].<ref name="cann"/>{{rp|5}} Reconstruction efforts after the war in 1936 were partially focused on benefiting the Muslim peoples in the colony at the expense of the [[Amhara people|Amhara]] to strengthen support by [[Muslims]] for the Italian colony.<ref name="cann"/>{{rp|5}} 

In 1938 Mussolini enacted [[Italian racial laws|The Italian Racial Laws]] ({{langx|it|Leggi Razziali}}), which institutionalized [[racial discrimination]] against [[Italian Jews]] and African inhabitants of the Italian Empire. These laws, and later a policy of pacification by apartheid, enforced segregation and reinforced [[Racial hierarchy|racial hierarchies]] in Italy's colonies, further aligning Italian fascism with [[Nazism|Nazi ideology]]. Italians and Natives were racially segregated and lived in separate parts of towns.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Forgacs |first=David |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Italy_s_Margins/4VEHAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Italy's Margins: Social Exclusion and Nation Formation since 1861 |date=2014-03-27 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-05217-8 |language=en}}</ref> Interracial marriage was prohibited and so was having children between those of different races. However concubinages did exist. Those who were mixed-race could not get Italian citizenship or go to schools meant for Italians. Married Italian colonists had to bring their families and those who were unmarried could not employ servants.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aldrich |first=Robert |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Colonial_World/NWCeEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present |last2=Stucki |first2=Andreas |date=2022-12-29 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-350-09242-6 |language=en}}</ref>