Comments on: Remembering Adwa: Ethiopia’s Victory in 1896 Halted Italy’s Ambitions in Africa

By: Andualem Delle

Andualem Delle — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:38:24 +0000

The victory of Adwa wasn’t only the victory of ETHIOPIA against the Italian colonial army. It was also the victory of all black people arround the world. That’s why we’r proud of our ancestors.

We, the current generation of ETHIOPIA,are responsible to do the same victory in the field of:- ignorance, poverty,recism,…….

One Love
One Ethiopia
United for the great Ethiopia

By: Rosie A

Rosie A — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:07:59 +0000

Thanks for informing the world of the forgotten truth!

Rosie
Atlanta

marie341@aol.com

By: embaqom

embaqom — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:23:04 +0000

Hi.

I thank Prof. Bekerie for this wonderful article. Is it possible that Prof. Bekerie could write a piece on Emperor Yohannes IV?

By: Messele

Messele — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:09:42 +0000

Thank you for your positive attitude towards this victory of Adwa and for the writing, which can be transfered from generation to generation.

By: Andrew Laurence

Andrew Laurence — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:50 +0000

Back in the US, March 1, 1896 is also the date the US Supreme Court ruled in Plessey vs. Ferguson that “separate but equal” will be the law of the land, setting back the rights gained by African Americans in the post Civil War reconstruction period until 1954 when Brown vs. Board of Education reversed this decision.

By: Alex Kanyi

Alex Kanyi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:56:33 +0000

Let me first observe a minute of silence to the fearless Ethiopian Warriors….

As we commemorate this grand day in our African calendars lets our hearts and minds go towards the real issue at hand, and that is our African dignity. I’m very sure Menelik II went to war for every African son and daughter, irrespective of their current location.

Ethiopians did their heritage proud. I hope they take the credit for being the only free and uncolonized inhabited country in Africa,surely the last stand-point.

I read this article and Prof.Ayele Bekerie put my thoughts in check on many issues that had been distorted by propagandist on various intricate aspects of the war.I had previously met Ethiopians who trivialized the fight, perhaps I thought to myself, they were just jaded because Ethiopia has been in existence since Existence(Check Genesis). But I appreciate that the article opened my eyes the way it did.

Next year on this day I plan to mobilize a few friends from Ba Beta Kristyan, and the Ethiopian community in Kenya to have a rendition,a reenactment of the Battle of Adwa, I hope I can find brave Ethiopians of the mantle of Menelik II as well as dramatically- vindictive actors from the other side equal to the then Italian soldiers. They were forgiven already and so they were redeemed, however I will have to find some, at the same time not underplaying the willingness of my Ethiopian friends.

I approve of the website and the vigil eye of the Ethiopian guards on our African Man in the White House, totally new ball game.Echoing the words of Voice of America’s Chaka Ssali ‘Keep hope alive.’

Egziabher Yestillin,

p.s(I hope I got that right).