The geographical location of East Africa always tends to give people a sense of being overlooked. This is the kind of inertial thinking caused by empiricism, where no one considers Africa important. The most typical example is the current United States.
The United States has a very advantageous geographical location, with top-notch conditions. However, even though the United States development is second only to the United Kingdom, its status in the world does not match this. The political influence of the United States is limited to the Americas. Countries like Mexico and the small nations of the Caribbean basically orbit around the United States.
Because in the general impression, no major world power has ever emerged from the Americas. For example, during the Black Ship incident, Americans opened the door to Japan, but the Japanese navy learned from the British, and the army from Prussia, not America.
