The Habit of War
Jeremy Harding: Eritrea, 20 July 2006
I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation
by Michela Wrong.
Harper Perennial, 432 pp., £8.99, January 2005,0 00 715095 4 Show More
by Michela Wrong.
Harper Perennial, 432 pp., £8.99, January 2005,
Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War
edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut.
Red Sea, 320 pp., $29.95, April 2005,1 56902 217 8 Show More
edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut.
Red Sea, 320 pp., $29.95, April 2005,
Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
edited by Robert Rotberg.
Brookings, 210 pp., £11.99, December 2005,0 8157 7571 7 Show More
edited by Robert Rotberg.
Brookings, 210 pp., £11.99, December 2005,
“... retired within the boundaries of their colony, which they’d hoped might be a springboard for the conquest of the interior. Another of their hopes was that Eritrea would eventually be settled by land-hungry Italian poor. In the end only about 1 per cent of emigrant Italians opted for the country’s African possessions, America being by far the more popular ... ”