History

Messay Kebede and false ‘dialectics’

(Andreas Admasie) The analysis contained in Messay Kebede’s recent Ethiomedia article is severely flawed in that it is based on…

Eritrea’s national security predicaments: Post-colonial African syndrome

(Meressa Tsehaye Gebrewahd) Outline - Introduction 1/ Literature Review 2/ Eritrea’s national security predicament: Historical antecedents 2.1/ Colonial Legacy: Identity…

The Agazian Movement: Exhuming a Corpse?

(Tesfay Nigus) Recent exchanges on [social] media among self-claimed propagators of the so called ‘Agazian’ movement, the antagonists, and few…

The British Expeditionary Force to Meqdella and the Deliberate Distortion of History

[My note is mainly based on Dej. Zewde Gebre-Selassie's (PhD) book, ''Yohannes IV of Ethiopia'': A Political Biography'' (2014).] In…

Battle of Adwa – Tigrayan Army uses Envelopment, Frontal Attack to Annihilate Italian Forces

(Infantry magazine - U.S. Army Infantry School) On 1 March 1896, in the vicinity of the Ethiopian town of Adwa,…

Treaty | Convention of Awsa b/n Italy, Shoa and Sultan of Danakil – 1883

[This convention was a declaration of friendship between the Kingdom of Italy and the supreme ruler of the Danakil, Sultan…

Creation of Colony of Assab – 1882

[This is a declaration by the Kingdom of Italy and its parliament regarding the transfer of the Assab area from Rubattino…

Treaty | Contracts of Assab and Ras Lumah 1869 and 1870

[The contract of Assab was a contract for the sale of lands in the area known as Asab to Mr…

Paper | Ethiopia and the African Union

(Mehari Taddele Maru[1]) (2013) Introduction This article investigates Ethiopia’s contributions to and its influence in the AU. It also explains…

Oldest bio of an African woman, Ethiopia’s Walatta Petros

(Alison Flood - The Guardian) Ethiopian noblewoman Walatta Petros left her husband to stop the spread of Roman Catholicism, possibly…

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