Economic colonization of the Abyssinian Empire was an important step in establishing the East African economic sphere, because among East Africa's neighbors, it was the only independent country with a respectable economic scale.
Like the regions of other countries, apart from British Cape Town and Italy's Red Sea colonies, not a single one had a population exceeding one million.
Cape Town had developed early, passing through more than a century of development from Dutch to British rule. After the South African War ended, large numbers of Boers flowed back into the Cape Colony, further increasing Cape Town's population.
The Red Sea colonies, meanwhile, had initially arisen from the population overflow of the Apennine Peninsula. After Germany, Italy had become a major source of European immigrants, and in previous years East Africa's Mozambique and Angola had absorbed quite a few Italian immigrants.
This allowed East Africa's Italian immigrant population to rapidly catch up with the Slavic immigrant population. However, East Africa's Slavic immigrants mainly came from the southern regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and had, to a certain extent, already been deeply influenced by Germanization. Slavic immigrants from Tsarist Russia were actually not particularly numerous.
As for the countries surrounding East Africa, aside from the Abyssinian Empire, all of them were colonies. That was the state Africa ought to have been in. An independent country like East Africa, one not ruled by its indigenous people, was the truly bizarre exception.
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"Since 1873, vast quantities of production equipment had been imported from Germany and elsewhere, allowing our industry to achieve leapfrog development. But nearly twenty years have now passed. Much of that equipment has fallen behind the times, and East Africa's industrial technology and equipment as a whole also need renewal—especially in non-emerging industrial fields."
East Africa had always