The Incomplete Inheritance of Eritrea’s Political HistoryPolitical communities rarely inherit their past in full. The armed struggle did not inherit Eritrea’s political diversity; it inherited the authority to redefine it. This narrowing of memory continues to shape Eritrea’s political imagination. It is an argument that the economic logic of the region aligns more naturally with political unity than with political separation. Eritrea’s political imagination has been constrained by a narrative that treats independence as both origin and destiny.