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ACFS Podcast - African History Quickies - Episode 6 - Ethiopia Defeats Italy, Part i

Season 0, Ep. 16

Summary African History Quickies – Episode 6 – Ethiopia Defeats Italy,

Part i

This is the first episode of our mini-series on the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

How come is Ethiopia’s victory against Italy in this war not well-known?

Many people know that Ethiopia was never colonised (though, that is not

100% true). However they do not know about the war and the victory that

contributed to Ethiopia remaining independent from colonisation.

A Further Reading List will be provided with the last episode of the Ethiopia

Defeats Italy mini-series.


Featuring: Italy; Ethiopia; Emperor Menelik II; Haile Selasie; Mussolini;

Horn of Africa; Red Sea; and much more

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