“This is fantasy . . . We’re in Africa and we meet an entirely new nation that the world has never been to . . . This is a nation that is highly developed, and they are so because they didn’t get interrupted by or assaulted by colonialism.”
Yep. Definitely fantasy.
It also creates a legitimate parallel to modern Africa.
You’ve got advanced technology - why are your neighbors starving and desperate? Why didn’t you raise them up to your level, since you’re so strong?
Oh, right, like much of Africa, you’re a tribe, not a nation, and the other tribes don’t matter.
We’ve got our super-suits and had electricity for centuries, you people go die of malaria and starvation because you’re as much an outsider as the whites.
Actually, no. Ethiopia has remained a sovereign entity for many many years. Long before European adventurism and colonization. I think you can go back to the the 100 BC era and include a much larger boundaries than recognized today.
But the rest of Africa aside from the mediterranean coast, they were just subsistence savages who raided other tribes for slaves and then they discovered how lucrative slave trading could be. They destroyed themselves.
You do not become advanced by being isolated. America got advanced math from Germany. Tesla came from Eastern Europe, you need institutions of higher learning, and we have professors and educators from around the world. It isn’t that the people aren’t smart, it is just the governments are corrupt. This does remind me of the black exploitation films of the 70’s etc.