Ethiopian Argument

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- The dispute, in the 1860’s between Emperor Tewodros II and the British Government, led to the extensive loot...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week how Emperor Yohannes IV succeeded in defeating Egyptian incursions into Ethiopia, but, as w...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- The death of Emperor Tewodros at Maqdala in 1868 left Ethiopia, as often in the past, divided, and without a...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Ethiopian imports, in the 1920s and 1930s, were both growing and becoming more diversifi...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that the first decades of the twentieth century witnessed many innovations in Ethiopia. Such...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that the 1920s and 1930 witnessed many innovations. For others, now please read on: Radio T...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that the innovative policies inaugurated by Emperor Menilek were continued, to some extent, ...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Last week we caught a glimpse of reformist ideas in Menilek’s Ethiopia, and quoted a little from Afawarq Gabr...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Foreign Drinks – and Drunkenness We saw last week that foreign alcoholic drinks gained increasing popularit...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- In recent issues we have been examining various innovations of Menilek’s time. Other innovations of this per...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Difficulties with Menilek’s Currency The issue of the Menilek currency, which was initiated in 1894, was es...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Menilek’s court had very different ideas on the question of technological innovation. ...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Menilek’s reign witnessed the taking of a number of important steps to ameliorate the country’s difficult com...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Emperor Menilek’s Conservative Courtiers Though Menilek was reputedly a firm friend of progress, most of his...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- A Conservative Period in Ethiopian History Despite the very significant reforms, and innovations, of the reig...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week how Emperors Tewodros and Yohannes were both, in identical or different ways, concerned with...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Tewodros, anxious to obtain foreign craftsmen from the British Government, succeeded in...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Tewodros was not only a cannonmaker, but also a road-builder. Now read on: Strategic I...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Ethiopia’s first great innovating monarch was, it is generally agreed, Emperor Tewodros, or Theodore II (1855...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- The conservative character of traditional Ethiopian life, which we are considering in these articles, found e...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Ethiopia’s traditional self-sufficiency at first isolated it from the impact of the Ind...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Ethiopian society, confronted with the advent of the Jesuits, in the late sixteenth and...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Social mobility in medieval Ethiopia, as we saw last week, was rigidly circumscribed by tradition. Christiani...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Maintenance of Independence Ethiopia’s mountainous and largely inaccessible terrain tended from early times...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- Let us turn this week to the history of foreign scholarship in Ethiopia, and consider today, and next Friday, ...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that the Duke of Aosta, who replaced Graziani as Viceroy, for tactical reasons adopted a som...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that the Ethiopian Patriots held their own against the Italian fascist occupation forces thr...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Mussolini and his followers were deeply worried, in 1937, by the continued resistance o...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw last week that Mussolini, by the late summer of 1937, was seriously concerned by the fact that the Eth...

By Dr. Richard Pankhurst:- We saw on before artcles that, during the Italian fascist occupation of Ethiopia, the fascist Viceroy, Grazia...