Part 1 Black people marched to defeat the white conqueror that was on the doorstep just to wipe out the only remaining uncolonized country with unremitting statehood. Ethiopians marched more miles than Napoleon’s advance to Russia, I read somewhere. No need to tell all what happened but the Victory of Adwa in 1896 turned the world upside down. The “savage” has not only won the war but humanized the battle at the site of the treatment of the colonial war captives; which was quite alien to the dominant anthropology that fed the brutal machinery of slavery and colonialism. Africanism was redefined…
