Prof. Lee Cassanelli ‘Italian Colonialism and its Legacies in the Horn of Africa (to focus on the Fascist era in Somalia and Ethiopia).” Professor Lee Cassinelli. A consideration of why Mussolini invaded Africa in the 1920’s to 1940’s and how this era helps to understand aspects of the Middle East and East Africa today. Part II of a two-part series on Trans-Re sponsored by the Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania.