China is now exporting many of its easy manual labour jobs to Ethiopia. Perhaps the Ethiopians are cheap and submissive enough to do such work because of their long farmer history?
It is foolish and outdated to look down on manual labour when you are living in poverty. I find it absurd when I see Somalis getting Oromos and even Asians to do manual work in Somalia. They need to set up vocational colleges in Somalia rather than all these Business and health courses which don’t lead to employment.
Ps. Sidenote-the East African slave trade did not only involve Africans being taken to Arabia and beyond. The Dutch brought enslaved Asians to South Africa; the French brought enslaved Asians to work in the Indian Ocean islands; And the Dutch had major slave operations in Asia( Indonesia, India , etc).