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I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation Paperback / softback - 2005
by Michela Wrong
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- Title I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation
- Author Michela Wrong
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, London
- Date July 4, 2005
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780007150953
- ISBN 9780007150953 / 0007150954
- Dewey Decimal Code 963.507
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Summary
Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States needed a base for its state-of-the-art spy station; and the Soviet Union used it as a pawn in a proxy war.In I Didn't Do It for You, Michela Wrong reveals the breathtaking abuses this tiny nation has suffered and, with a sharp eye for detail and a taste for the incongruous, tells the story of colonialism itself and how international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny.
First line
Whenever I land in Asmara, a novel read in adolescence comes to mind.