ISBN: 9780674503847    Publisher: Harvard University Press Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 432 pp        Language: English

In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In defending its independence, Ethiopia cast doubt on the assumption that all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans, and opened a breach that would lead to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule.
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