madamato

Ethiopian women cohabited with Italian men in a system of concubinage known as madamato. The implicitly erotic song was, however, somewhat of an embarrassment

"a little docile animal". The marriage falls into what was known as the madamato [it] practice, a relationship between Italian men and local women that

the laws against madamato—that is, the concubinage between Italians and African women in occupied territories. The penalty for madamato was a prison sentence