Ethiopia Conquered

[Pain]

If I've placed this post in the wrong section I apologize. I was looking for a section sorta like African history, but couldn't find one.

I'm wondering how exactly to answer this question because I don't see any documentation that discusses it yet it is obvious to me. I'd also like to know when it happened for the Sudan as well. Obviously Ethiopia was conquered and/ or colonized because the main religions that are practiced there fall outside of the realm of traditional African spiritual systems and as far as I can see this is a strong marker of an interruption by an outside force into the traditional way of life for Africans.

I've seen the few people who still practice their indigenous culture and spiritual systems in Ethiopia and they look no different than the indigenous people of the Sudan or anywhere else in Africa where WE are. They don't look like the people that they usually show in Ethiopia which look more like the people in Northern Sudan which are obviously mixed. It's always said that they were never conquered, but I'm thinking they were one of the first ones to be conquered thousands of years ago. Anyone have any thoughts or links? Why if they were never conquered are they not primarily practicing their indigenous religion? Oromo are one of the major ethnic groups there and they are primarily Muslim, but they have an indigenous spiritual system that is no different in basic similarities across the board with all other indigenous African spiritual systems. Ethiopia has one of the lowest percentages of people who practice their indigenous spiritual systems and the pattern we see across Africa is that the ones with the lowest percentage of people practicing their original spiritual systems (usually countries in the North) are the ones that either have have a relatively large population of white people living there (such as South Africa) or have been conquered and/ or colonized the longest.

[M.Panther]

To possibly comprehend the social situation within the nation lets look at it from the economic perspective first.Here is an excerpt taken from a paper written by Asad Ismi called the "ravaging of africa." (http://www.ckln.fm/~asadismi/africa02.html)

it goes:

Militarizing Africa

Africa is the most war-torn region in the world with armed conflicts going on in ten countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, Liberia, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia/Eritrea, Congo-Brazzaville and Algeria. The long wars in Angola and Sierra Leone ended (for now) in April and March 2002 respectively. The U.S. has provided arms and/or military training to participants in 11 of these 12 wars, the only exception being Algeria. During the 1990s, 32 African countries (out of 53) saw violent conflict. According to William Hartung, co-author of "Deadly Legacy: U.S. Arms to Africa and the Congo War," a report released in 2000 by the New York-based World Policy Institute, the U.S. sent $1.5 billion dollars in arms and training to Africa during the Cold War years (1950-1989) and this "set the stage for the current round of conflicts in the region." Hartung points out that "The military skills and equipment supplied by the U.S. are still being used by combatants in these wars." As "Deadly Legacy" explains, "many of the top U.S. clients of the Cold War?Liberia, Somalia, Sudan and Zaire (now DRC)" became riven by violence, instability and economic collapse during the 1990s (and still are).

Following the end of the Cold War, the Clinton Administration undertook "a wave of new military training programs in Africa." From 1991 to 1995, the U.S. gave military assistance to 50 countries in Africa out of a total of 53; during 1991-98, U.S. arms sales and military training to Africa totalled more than $227 million. The U.S. has four different military training programs for Africa: International Military Education Training (IMET), Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET), African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) and the African Center for Security Studies (ACSS). Under IMET, the U.S. gave $7.9 million in outright grants to Sub-Saharan Africa in 1998, increasing it to $8.1 million in 1998 and $8.5 million in 2000. In contrast, South Asia got only $5.7 million, $5.6 million, and $5.8 million, respectively. In 2000, the U.S. gave $8.1 million under ACRI to 39 African countries and U.S. Special Forces have trained 34 out of 53 African national militaries under JCET.
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and that may partially explain it.

I'd also like to know when it happened for the Sudan as well. Obviously Ethiopia was conquered and/ or colonized because the main religions that are practiced there fall outside of the realm of traditional African spiritual systems and as far as I can see this is a strong marker of an interruption by an outside force into the traditional way of life for Africans.

Good point,they were never conquere militarily (ie complete invasion and destruction) but remember who has control over the economy of the world (the euro-american IMF,WORLD BANK,ETC) and since our people who were never overran physically have had to battle economically against the "enemy" but since the "enemy" has complete control over the world economy it is not really a "battle" but an uphill climb with not equipment at a 90 degree angle.

We did (from what I have heard) Islam BUT some of us are NOT reading our own interpretation (ie looking at it as an AFrikan invention,and with Afrikan eyes) but another peoples,same goes with "Christianity" and such.