07-03-20
It is an incontrovertible fact that the country was assembled by bringing together different nations and nationalities to exploit and dominate. This was done by the use of force the local imperial power managed to garner from white colonial powers in return for strategic and material gains they would have for the services they provided.
The Italians were given Pointo Forto, what they renamed Eritrea later, taken from the Tigrain and Begare Negash people beginning May 2 1889 at the treaty of Wuchale. The treaty provided Menelik with mazuma and weapons to subjugate the Tigrians in the north, the Oromo, Sidama, welayta and other southern nations.
The Djibouti was auctions to the French, initially in 1894 for 99 years but eventual became a French colony in 1896 after the sellout.
