The Kremlin would have you believe that Russia was always an anti-colonial power in its relations with Africa. “Remember, you are white, a man of the superior race,” this was one of the rules Lieutenant Grigorii Chertkov espoused while deployed in Africa in the service of the Russian Empire in 1897. Leontiev managed to get into Ethiopian Emperor Menelik’s closest …
Menelik Tafari, a fourth-year urban schooling graduate student at UCLA, walked off the job Monday with about 48,000 other University of California academic workers to strike for better pay and benefits. Ryan King, a spokesperson for UC, pointed out that the university’s latest proposal eliminates the two lowest salary steps for graduate researchers, which would amount to significant increases for …
The Victory of Adwa has been a very divisive issue in Ethiopia for decades. Still others view Adwa as the very first decisive victory of a black African power against colonialism, and celebrate it as a critical juncture in black people’s collective struggle against European colonial domination. The Adwa paradox While segments of the Ethiopian society view Adwa as Ethiopia’s …
