Adwa: The Morning Italy Misread a TreatyTigray, Ethiopia · 1 March 1896“Bring the children close for this one. This is the victory the whole world was told could not happen.”It began with a pen, not a gun. The Treaty of Wuchale said one thing in Amharic and another in Italian — the Italian text quietly made Ethiopia a protectorate.The lesson the elders kept: Read every treaty in both languages. And know that one African victory belonged immediately to all of Africa and its diaspora.