Why Adwa, for racist reasons?
Posted: 02 Mar 2026, 16:16
More Ethiopians have been martyred in Ethiopia-Eritrea wars than in Adwa. Tested black to black sympathy for each other. Tested existence of the country itself.
2. In Ethiopia-Somalia war, more Ethiopians died than at Adwa. The coutry's existence was in jeopardy.
3. More Ethiopians lost their lives in Ethiopia-Tigrey war than at Adwa. Ethiopia seemed to disintegrate and questioned our sympathy for each other.
In all the 3 wars, more Ethiopians were maimed and more economy was destroyed than at Adwa.
In the mean time, Italians have built our dams on Blue Nile and Omo rivers that have greatly improved elecricity supplies to Ethiopians.
In the 5 years Italy colonized Ethiopia, they abolished slave trade, feudalism and enshrined equality of religions concrete on the ground, abolished male/female inequality, built paved roads with traffic management, provided treated water, built hydroelcetric dams, introduced mechanized agriculture, etc.
Is it for racist reasons we celebrate Adwa to claim that we beat up whites whom we considered superior to ourselves? Do we celebrate Adwa out of this inferiority complex? To brag that we defeated a power higher than us?
Only the feudal exploitative system lost but not Ethiopians.
2. In Ethiopia-Somalia war, more Ethiopians died than at Adwa. The coutry's existence was in jeopardy.
3. More Ethiopians lost their lives in Ethiopia-Tigrey war than at Adwa. Ethiopia seemed to disintegrate and questioned our sympathy for each other.
In all the 3 wars, more Ethiopians were maimed and more economy was destroyed than at Adwa.
In the mean time, Italians have built our dams on Blue Nile and Omo rivers that have greatly improved elecricity supplies to Ethiopians.
In the 5 years Italy colonized Ethiopia, they abolished slave trade, feudalism and enshrined equality of religions concrete on the ground, abolished male/female inequality, built paved roads with traffic management, provided treated water, built hydroelcetric dams, introduced mechanized agriculture, etc.
Is it for racist reasons we celebrate Adwa to claim that we beat up whites whom we considered superior to ourselves? Do we celebrate Adwa out of this inferiority complex? To brag that we defeated a power higher than us?
Only the feudal exploitative system lost but not Ethiopians.