The Battle of Adwa

March 1 2019

The Battle of Adwa, A Battle that Proved Colonizer Doesn’t Always Win. By Theodore M. Vestal, Ph.D.

In 1896, Italy, a late-comer to the family of nations and a slow-footed scrambler for colonial spoils in Africa, made her move to conquer Ethiopia, the only remaining prize on the continent unclaimed by Europeans. Expansionist leaders of the recently unified Kingdom of Italy dreamed of a second Roman Empire, stretching from the Alps to […]

September 22 2017

Mussolini’s atrocity in Ethiopia was not any less Barbaric then Hittler’s

by Ian Campbell (Hurst, £24) ON FEBRUARY 19, 1937, less than a year after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, resistance fighters threw hand grenades at members of the fascist Italian high command as they assembled for a public ceremony at the occupied emperor’s palace in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa. No-one was killed but a […]