Ethiopia
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Ethiopia, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- The Yekatit 12 Massacre: Italy's Reprisal in Addis Ababa (Article)
- The 1930 Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I (Article)
- The Liberation of Ethiopia and Haile Selassie's 1941 Return to Addis Ababa (Article)
- Haile Selassie at the Front: His Own Wartime Record Against the 1935-36 Italian Invasion (Article)
- Haile Selassie's 1936 Appeal to the League of Nations (Article)
- The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution and the Fall of Haile Selassie (Article)
- The Adam and Eve Mural of Abreha wa-Atsbeha, and What's Actually Known About Its Age (Article)
- The Derg's 1974 Overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie (Article)
- Abebe Bikila Wins the 1960 Rome Olympics Marathon Barefoot (Article)
- Rastafari and Bob Marley's Spiritual Testimony (Article)
- Emperor Fasiladas Expelled the Jesuits, and Historians Credit It With Keeping Ethiopia Free (Article)
- Ethiopia's 14th-Century Cannabis Pipes, and a Popular Claim That Doesn't Hold Up (Article)
- Why Ethiopia Celebrates Christmas on January 7 (Article)
- The Kagnew Battalions: Ethiopia's Soldiers in the Korean War (Article)
- Mengistu Haile Mariam and Ethiopia's Red Terror (Article)
- The Battle of Adwa: How Ethiopia Defeated Italy in 1896 (Article)
- Abuna Yemata Guh, the World's Most Inaccessible Church (Article)
- The Omo Fossils: Discovered in 1967, Still Getting Older (Article)
- The Queen of Sheba, King Solomon, and the Ethiopian Legend of Menelik I (Article)
- King Ezana of Aksum's Conversion to Christianity, and How His Coins Prove It (Article)
- The Herto Skulls: Once Called the Oldest Modern Humans, Now One of Several Contenders (Article)
- Bilal ibn Rabah: The Formerly Enslaved Ethiopian Who Became Islam's First Muezzin (Article)
- Yityish Aynaw, the First Ethiopian-Born Miss Israel (Article)
- The Founding of the Organisation of African Unity, May 25, 1963 (Article)
- A 2017 Study Found More Than 10,000 Chinese Firms Operating in Africa (Article)
- Revenge for Adwa: Mussolini's 1935 Invasion and the African-Americans Who Tried to Fight It (Article)
- Aksum: The African Empire a Persian Prophet Ranked Alongside Rome (Article)
- Eritrea's Three-Decade War for Independence From Ethiopia (Article)
- The Ethiopian Empire: 700 Years of Unbroken Rule, and the Battle That Kept It Free (Article)
From the Archive
- This 1961 Paul Hoefler Productions documentary on the Ethiopian Empire—concludes that Ethiopians are Caucas…
- Landmark of the day: The world's most inaccessible place of worship. Tigray, Ethiopia.
- Dug up some 1896 New York Times wartime reports on the catastrophic Italian invasion of Ethiopia that same…
- The consequences of the utter destruction of the colonial Italian forces at Ad(o)wa on this date in 1896 by…
- On this day in 1896, the great Emperor Menelik II led the Ethiopian armies to inflict the worst defeat ever…
- How was Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia killed? He was truly strangled to death on the order of the 17-m…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- Africa's greatest Kings & Queens: Manin (Ghana) Menelik II (Abyssania) Ali (Songhai) Askia (Mali) Musa (Mal…
- Melkam Genna! On the 7th of January, Christmas is celebrated every year in Ethiopia. Wishing you all a happ…
- Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta made just 2 foreign trips in his 15-year presidency: to England (1964), and to Ethiop…
- A 1100 AD bong found in Ethiopia showed Africans were smoking weed 200 years before China recorded marijuan…
- Do you know that Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia had a car by 1896? See what transpired when Wells & Bentley…
- IMPORTANT: Some African countries do not permit dual citizenship, while others do. A list of every African…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- The Catholic Church's role in Mussolini's Italian 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, a people that practiced Christ…
- Ancient Ethiopian healing scrolls believed to eliminate illness by purging evil spirits and demons from a s…
- Jesus Christ as seen by the Ethiopians and portrayed in the their art. Remember that Christianity was alrea…
- Much credit to emperors Menelik II & Haile Selassie I for Ethiopia remaining uncolonised. However, 17th cen…
- After the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885 where the Motherland was unilaterally carved up on a table by Euro…
- Watch Abebe Bikila 🇪🇹 win the Rome 1960 Olympics Marathon on barefoot. Given the animosity from the 1935…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- The Imperial Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie, officially known as; "By the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of…
- (MK) Pnina Tamano-Shata – a lawyer, journalist, politician and proud member of the Ethiopian community – be…
- The Tigray War began as fighting erupted between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberatio… (2020)
- Hachalu Hundessa, the Ethiopian singer and Oromo activist whose music became an anthem of political protest… (2020)
- A rare footage of the return of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie the First, back to Ethiopia af…
- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia being whisked away in a Volkswagen Beetle on the day he was overthrown b…
- A 16th century depiction of Adam, Eve & the Serpent at Facade of I Yesus Church, Axum (Aksum) - Ethiopia
- BREAKING: Ethiopian Prime Minister the charismatic Dr. Abiy Ahmed, has been awarded the #NobelPeacePrize fo…
- Here's Adam and Eve as depicted in a mural at the revered Abreha wa Atsbeha Church in Ethiopia, built circa…
- Josephat Machuka of Kenya did this to Ethiopian legend, Haile Gebrselassie 🇪🇹 in 1992 😂 Gebrselassie is…
- The Jubilee Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. Shown are the Treasure Room, the S…
- Rare footage of scenes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown by Marxist army…
- Scoring infrastructure in Africa, 2018. Only Maroc, Egypt, SA, Mauritius and Seychelles reach the global av…
- Ethiopian model, Maki Mekdelawit 🇪🇹
- Hundreds of Ethiopians and Eritreans flocked to a candlelight virgil held last Saturday in Addis Ababa, Eth…
- After the Benito Mussolini's Italians invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Emperor Haile Selassie the First went to Ge…
- UNESCO's 2019 inscription recognized Timkat, the colorful Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of Epiphany held e… (2019)
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people aboard… (2019)