Here is one Donkey "professor Yakob Hailemariam",
he probably bought that title from Romanian or Bulgarian universities arguing that Assab belong to Ethiopia. Under the title Whose assab / ዓሰብ የማን ናት? he argued that Assab belong to Ethiopia. Here is one Eritrean whopping the [deleted] of the adgi and destroyed the entire content of this book.
His name is Yakob Hailemariam (PhD), an Ethiopian scholar widely criticized for his intellectual dishonesty. He is believed to have misled many Ethiopians with his book "Whose is Assab? / ዓሰብ የማን ናት?", as their arguments often rely on the claims presented in this publication.
You don't need to read his highly inaccurate book, as I've outlined one of his misleading claims here for fact-checking:
Dr. Yakob claimed in this video that "a local Afar Sultanate, which controlled the area at the time, sold a portion of coastal land (there was no port at the time) to the Italian Rubattino Shipping Company without the consent or permission of «Emperor Menelik»". This occurred despite the Emperor's declaration that Ethiopia's frontier extended to the Red Sea."
Now, let me dismantle this claim by presenting facts in chronological order, as that claim forms the foundation of his book's core argument:
➠ In 1869, the local Sultanate sold a piece of coastal land, now known as Assab, to an Italian company called Rubattino Shipping Company.
➠ In 1882, Italy purchased the land from this private shipping company, establishing its first foothold in the region.
➠ Yohannes IV was Emperor from 1871 to 1889.
➠ Menelik became Emperor in 1889, that is 20 years after the Italian shipping company acquired the coastal land and 7 years after Italy took possession of it.
➠ As outlined above, neither Yohannes nor Menelik was in power when the local Sultanate sold the land to the Italian shipping company.
➠ Neither Yohannes nor Menelik ever set foot on the Red Sea coast. Ever!
➠ During this entire period, there was no recognized territory or entity called 'Ethiopia'.
➠ Ethiopia's territorial boundaries were largely established by the time of Menelik's reign, which began in 1889.
Now, help me make sense of his claim. ወፍ የለም!
This intellectually dishonest individual has also made another absurd claim, one so baseless that I won't even bother to embarrass him further.
And what does current low IQ Ethiopians got to do with axumite empire? People who learned to dress and cover their [deleted] recently due to their connection with europeans or people still eat raw meet has nothing to do with axumite and its glory. The epicenter of Axum is in what today is Eritrea,,Through its name, religion, script and authenticity, Eritrea is the Succession of the axumite empire.