http://www.ogaden.com/opinion/1433-the-last-piece-of-berlin-wall-the-ogaden.html The Last Piece of Berlin Wall: The Ogaden Jan 10, 2010 By: Dr. M. Ugas “There are only two ways to look at life: One as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is…” – Albert Einstein This was a paper originally presented to a conference held at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis on the thème of “Looking Back Looking Forward: The Ogaden Region in the 21st Century” under the panel: Ethiopia’s Contested Politics) fron June 18th to June 20th, 2010. The Westerners call the Berlin Wall as the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”, Easterners call it the “Iron Curtain”. But, many Africans believe that it was the fruits of what Germany had to harvest when Berlin partitioned Africa in 1884-1885 as a process of invasion, occupation colonization and annexation by European powers during the new imperialism period between 1881 and World War I in 1914. Now, the partition of Af
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