Marques D Cameron Sr.

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

Trade was done through barter or the Maria Teresa, uh, failures or the Australian.

They basically use Australian money.

to uh as an exchange as a medium of exchange no we need our own money they think about it they've been an empire for well over thousands of years and they just not putting their own money or or minting their own money well so the modern state needs monetary sovereignty so

Manilek, he created Ethiopian coins.

Of course, the coin is backed by their resources, which is gold, silver, and everything else.

It was stamped with his image circulating throughout the empire, right?

And so Manilek further worked to develop a national infrastructure by building schools and making travel more accessible and comfortable through the creation of the trains.

He also made sure

uh that people could remain in contact through a postal and telegraph system we talked about that he also established ministries okay uh not yeah not like the western term like church right man elects later activities as emperor included the creation of ministries the in initiation of modern education and the construction of telephone right so for the first time ethiopia

had a ministry of war, professionalizing the military.

It's not just local militias anymore.

We have a standing military, ministry of finance, managing national revenue, managing the money, accounting and everything.

Ministry of Interior, coordinating provinces, governors, and so on.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, engaging with Europe and America and Asia.

This communication, all these things began to unify Ethiopia as an empire, as a country.

And because modernization always creates winners and losers,

There's a new class that started to develop.

There's a ripple effect.

A new class emerges, right?

So what happens?

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