It fragmented nations, States and kingdoms that existed in so many parts of Africa. The Italians in 1890 desperate for colonial territories occupied and incorporated three fragments of three nations in the making into their colony were they named Eritrea. The N.E Sahil as fragment from the Beja nation, the Plateau from the Abyssinian nation and Southern Sahil from the Affar nation. This is our reality we have to accept it admit it and take it into consideration to forge a practical and just society and governance. We need to name things by their real names while we are awake and act accordingly so that we can realise the dream.
People dream about things they had been through.
However, this reality is not unique to Eritrea. Almost all-African countries and their boundaries were the creations of colonialists. Social and political scientists point out that territorial integration is the first condition in the process of nation formation. Territorial integration of Eritrea was completed under the Italian occupation. Eritrea was born as a result of an artificial insemination delivered by an Italian midwife.