Marques D Cameron Sr.

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2,953 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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King Cam's Ujumbe Podcast · Menelik II: How Ethiopia Modernized Without Being Colonized · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

That is power.

That's sovereignty.

So in 1917, it was finally connected to the port of Djibouti by railway, linking Ethiopia more directly to international trade and communication.

And so...

There's some other things.

Okay, modernization.

Remember, modernization versus westernization, okay?

We can be modern, but we don't have to look like the Western world.

Next focus is electricity, currency, and ministries, okay?

We need to be able to turn the lights on, right?

Emperor Manalek II's appetite for innovation didn't just stop with trains, okay?

Under his leadership, under his rule, Ethiopia saw the introduction of electricity, telegraph, telephone, motor vehicles, plumbing systems, technology that changed urban life in Addis Ababa.

He built the capital Addis Ababa from, say, appropriated Oromo land and created a national currency.

What they say in that movie, Coming to America, this man got his own money.

And that's nice.

That's, that's, that's, bro.

That's, that's, that's a nice gold coin right there.

That really is.

That has the image and likeness of imprint manner, manner, like the second with the line of the tribe of Judah on the adverse, right?

So before Manilek had before this, before Manilek, Ethiopia had no national currency.

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