GEOG 122 Lecture 3: GEO 122 JAN 11TH LECTURE NOTES
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Lecture 4: cold war geopolitics - the horn of africa. Ethiopian uplands too poor to be colonised. The only country in africa that was not colonized. But a strategic location on the red sea route to arabia. Controls the entrance to the red sea which leads to suez canal leading to ocean. The major powers uninterested in its regional character because the logic of location (a geographic abstraction) For colonial powers and cold war superpowers, less a region than a location, less a place than a space. Straight lines on map, establish edge to territory. The boundaries have been drawn without considering local context. Somalia under-defined ethnically, kenya and especially christian ethiopia, friend of the. West, over defined, incorporating muslim somalis in ogaden desert, eritreans, and others. At that time, britain in aden, french in djibouti, us in ethiopia. 1963, ussr offered to train somali army (to gain a hold in this region)
