It should have ended with Verdi
John Davis: The Battle of Adwa, 24 May 2012
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
by Raymond Jonas.
Harvard, 413 pp., £22.95, November 2011,978 0 674 05274 1 Show More
by Raymond Jonas.
Harvard, 413 pp., £22.95, November 2011,
“... was ‘the first revolt of the Dark Continent against domineering Europe’. In The Battle of Adwa Raymond Jonas goes a step further. Adwa, he claims, not only ensured that Ethiopia would remain the only independent state in Africa but marked a turning point in global history: ‘We can readily imagine the world – our world – taking a different path ... ”
