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EventBattle of Dogali: Ethiopian army defeat the invading Italians
The battle of Dogali was a skirmish that was part of a larger conflict between the Italians and the Ethiopians. At this time Ethiopians had the most well…
BiographyRev. Mangena Maake Mokone
Reverend Mangena M Mokone was born at Bogaga, Sekhukhuneland (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his…
Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual (Welwel) on the disputed Somali-Ethiopian border.
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… The battle - and the greater narrative of Ethiopia’s independence – is a powerful symbol of African … his mouth, at once both strong and comforting. For much…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… efforts to end the fighting took place in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), and Lusaka (Zambia). It …
Haile Selassie (83), deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies.
BiographyOliver Tambo
… leader, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser. From here he flew to Ethiopia where he met with the Non-European United Front … set up to work together with a common…
15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.
NBC aired BBC footage of the Ethiopian famine.
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… officials. For this programme, Van Wyk travelled to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Washington, Toronto, New York, Sao Paolo …
Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.
BiographyErnest Malgas
Ernest Singqokwana Malgas was born August 8th,1937 in Port Elizabeth. Malgas never attended school.He became politicized as a result ,he spend six weeks in…
The battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism
… a well-armed Italian army in the northern town of Adwa in Ethiopia. The outcome of this battle ensured Ethiopia’s independence, making it the only African…
Running barefoot, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila wins the Rome Olympic marathon.
The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is lost to the Italians.
The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is lost to the Italians.
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… 1958. Amongst those countries that attended were Ghana, Ethiopia, Sudan, Liberia, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. There … From 1959 to 1963 African Liberation…
Five Ethiopian hijackers surrender peacefully at a military airport outside of Rome.
125 people die and fifty are rescued when a hijacked Ethiopian Boeing plunges into the sea at the Great Comoro.
125 people die and fifty are rescued when a hijacked Ethiopian Boeing plunges into the sea at the Great Comoro.
ArchiveHow an Ethiopian slave became a South African teacher by Sandra Rowoldt Shell
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, died in 1975, but he lives…
One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return to Judaism by Don Seeman
Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri’s forces out.
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over Italian colonialism. This great victory has … against new forms of oppression…
Nelson Mandela’s speech to the Free Ethiopian Church of Southern Africa Potchefstroom, 14 December 1992
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele breaks the 10 000m world record in 26 minutes 20.32 seconds.
ArticleThe History of Al-Shabaab
… to be a serious concern to the government of neighbouring Ethiopia, who backed Somalia’s Transitional Federal … leadership to undertake a new offensive in…
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… agreed to support Eritrea’s right to self- determination. Ethiopia wrote a letter to the UN Secretary General. The UN … after 30 years of struggle against…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… his first entry at 11am on 3 January 1962 and his last in Ethiopia on 13 July 1962 shortly before his return to South … the memory and archive of that era…