Ethiopia defeated Italian colonials at Adwa, then Africans realized a black man is capable of saying No! to Europeans. Ethiopia (along with Russia) is the only sovereign nation that hasn't been ruled by a foreign power, (A privilege even US, UK never enjoyed) Africans knew that it's possible to be still be Black and yet mighty over history. Ethiopia drew its calendar from the beginning (commemorated new millennium just 5 yrs ago -) writes with its own alphabet system (ሀለሐመሠረሰቀበተቸ .. if your Unicode sys captures it), it's own version of Christianity not dictated by European guns, Then Africans learned it's possible to draw Black-man's version of lifestyle. The first 'Azan' - prayers world wide were screamed in Ethiopia after founder Mohammad and followers were persecuted. Ethiopia rejected Neo-liberalism (the Washington consensus) and adopted DDv'tal State system, recorded upto 3rd fastest growing economy world wide only behind China and India in 2008 when global recession harassed big nations. So Africans discovered that their continent can say No! to western preconditions to survival of their own citizens. Ethiopia is building Africa's biggest dam - GERD - with 5 bln USD funded by itself to show Africa that it can dream big and satisfy it with a means d/t from only foreign aid. Ethiopia has its airline in 1940s when others were suffering from evils, the first black African to captain those crafts - Ato Alemayehu is Ethiopian. The first black African who won Olympic gold Abebe Bikila in 1950s bare-footed on the streets of Rome, that Ethiopia defeated twice within 40 years of colonial agression - he said he run bare foot bcz he "... wanted to show that my country, Ethiopia has always defeated with courage and commitment."
(http://shareranks.com/3108,Most-Influential-African-Countries)
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