Egyptian–Ethiopian War

Ethiopia / Egypt · 1874–1876

“Hear Egypt's push toward the highlands and Ethiopia's answer at Gundet and Gura.”

Khedive Ismail wanted Egypt to dominate the Nile basin, the Red Sea coast and the approaches to Ethiopia. In the 1870s, Egyptian armies, including foreign officers and veterans, moved against Emperor Yohannes IV.

Jelikan · Ìtàn · A story is told at night

Sit by the fire.
The griot remembers.

244 tellings from the African Conflict Atlas, every one carried in the griot's own voice — empires and uprisings, taxes and stools, gold roads and broken promises. Told the way a griot tells them: by voice, by lesson, by question.

“A story, a story!”

32 fires burn through the year →

Choose a thread

What shall the fire hear tonight?

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— and the circle answers: “Let it come, let it go.”

Sit by the fire.The griot remembers.

What shall the fire hear tonight?

Sit by the fire.
The griot remembers.