Maybe, but I think modern day political boundaries are not relevant to this.
Sample this from the perspective of someone living in the middle east looking towards africa through Egypt,
Quote:Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
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That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
What comes to my mind is woe to us Africans, during the slave trade we were shipped across seas in vessels, us, a nation so terrible since our beginnings, trodden down etc.