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Unlike most of Africa, Europeans never colonized Ethiopia. The closest they got is a 5-year occupation during World War II which is too short to count as true c
by jkaplowitz 8y ago
Unlike most of Africa, Europeans never colonized Ethiopia. The closest they got is a 5-year occupation during World War II which is too short to count as true colonization.
- albemuth 8y agoUntil now?
- jkaplowitz 8y agoThis is still true. They do receive some foreign aid money from Western countries, including the US, but that's different from being a colony even if it is a tie to the global economic and geopolitical system.
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoThe Italian occupation was definitely an attempt at colonization. We can argue if it was considered temporarily successful or not, but I’m not sure what true colonization is like I’m not sure what a true Scotsman is.
- jkaplowitz 8y agoYeah they definitely tried to colonize Ethiopia then. We're agreeing. They simply failed to stay long enough to convert an occupation into a colonization.
- gspetr 8y agoI think that is stretching the definition of colonization too far. Using the same logic, Western countries tried to colonize Russia in 1919 and Nazi Germany colonized quite a bit of Europe during WWII.