Originally posted on my blog:
https://historyinthehorn.wordpress....a-window-and-clue-into-lost-aksumite-history/
The accurate history of the Empire of Aksum has been lost. This is undeniable for two reasons. The first reason is simply that much of the documentation has been destroyed in the last 1200 years of calamitous wars that have befallen Ethiopia. The second and more significant reason is deliberate rewriting of Ethiopian history to glorify to the dynasty of Yekuno Amlak, which went on to found the medieval state of Abyssinia in 1270 which is, like the Capetian monarchy is the basis of modern France, the basis of modern Ethiopia.
This rewriting ranges from the subtle to the extreme. For instance Yekuno Amlak was a descendant of the son of Del Naod, who reigned before the invasion of Gudit and the destruction of Aksum in the 9th century. The sack of Aksum by Gudit was a critical turning point in Ethiopian history, the significance of which has been diminished as other more recent turning points have come and gone, but about 1100 years ago or thereabouts a woman named Yodit or Gudit, who was a queen of the Beta Israel, sacked Aksum and ruled as Empress of the Aksumite Empire for about 40 years. Now if you study the history, this happened more than a century after the reign of Del Naod, who began his reign in the year 861. We know this because Debre Istafanos Monastary was founded in the 7th year of Del Naod in 868. The Coptic Pope of Alexandria Pope Philotheos sent a new Metropolitan of Aksum to Ethiopia in 985 and Gudit was defeated very shortly thereafter.
The Aksumite dynasty would limp along for another 200 years until the dynasty ended and the Zagwe dynasty would assume the throne through marriage to Terdae Gabaz and take the throne in 1137. The Zagwe rule would last for a little over a century until Yekuno Amlak, a powerful regional lord from the south, would overthrow the Zagwe in a coup d’etat and two year war and seize the throne for himself in 1270.
The rewriting began somewhat immediately, where Del Naod was made the last king of Aksum, after which time there was a 333 year rule of the Zagwe (who were in league with Gudit in this revised history, as the Beta Israel and the Zagwe were of related ethnic groups). Also in this revised history, the dynasty was not just the kings of Aksum but also the sons of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, thus renaming the dynasty the Solomonic Dynasty. This claim is not present in any Aksumite inscriptions or monuments and appears shortly after 1270.
In order to have a dynasty that stretched back to King Solomon’s time and also to erase the senior branch of the Aksumite dynasty from history, the king lists were terminally altered into unintelligibility to the point where they bear no resemblance to the historical coinage, inscriptions or church histories. For political convenience, history was destroyed.
However in the church records, which are a parallel and independent authority, we find grains of historicity. And this is where we come to the Gadla Abuna Aragawi or the Acts of Father Aragawi, one of the church leaders during the active period of the 6th century, in the heart of the era we are discussing, the late Aksumite era. The book is mainly about Abuna Aragawi, as you would imagine, but delves into a very revealing passage of history where it makes an extremely important statement:
“In the 8th year of Emperor Bazen, was the advent of Christ. Between Emperor Bazen and Abreha and Azbeha there were 19 kings and 244 years. Between Abreha and Azbeha and Gabra Masqal there were 9 kings and 124 years, for a total of 368 years.”
Due to the way the king lists have been formatted to stretch into antiquity, the first line has been traditionally interpreted to mean that in the 8th year of Bazen, Christ was born, meaning the beginning of his reign was 8 BCE. However, the early parts of the king lists, around king Bazen, is one of the few areas where recognizable historical kings like Gedur (who reigned in the 3rd century), Afilya (or Aphilas, who reigned after Gedur) and Awsena (Ousanas, who reigned after Afilya and before Ezana) can be found. This offers an alternative interpretation of this passage, that the archaeological records are correct and Aksum is a kingdom founded in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, and Bazen is in fact Ezana.
If one takes this interpretation of the passage and the era of Ezana, the 244 year span between the beginning of Ezana and the end of Abreha and Azbeha becomes very interesting. Azbeha in this scenario is of course Kaleb, the emperor who invaded Yemen to defeat Dhu Nuways, and Abreha is his church-building brother who marched on Mecca and died in the Year of the Elephant, 569. Aksum converted to Coptic Christianity in 333 CE, so if this is the 8th year of Ezana, meaning his reign began in 325, this is exactly 244 years prior to the Year of the Elephant and the death of Azbeha’s (Kaleb’s) brother Abreha, nicknamed “Scarface” or al-Ashrar by the Arabs.
Moving forward in time to the reign of Gabra Masqal, this puts the end of his reign in 693, around the time when the Aksum Empire fell apart into civil war approximately around the year 700 when his descendants and the descendants of his brother Israel (founder of the Beta Israel or House of Israel) began fighting, which circles back to Queen Gudit invading and destroying Aksum 250 years later.
Having made this connection I frantically looked through all the king lists to find one with 19 names inclusive between Bazen and Abreha/Azbeha and no such list exists, and in any case the lists that do exist the names in this era do not match historical records like the pre-Bazen ones do (which were I assume so ancient as to be safe to include in king lists without people noticing chronological discrepancies and so embedded in legend that their absence would be noticed).
Are Habesha and Tigrinya the same people?
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Amde Seyon was born in the late 13th century, in the household of Yekuno Amlak, the hereditary rulers of Tegulet castle and the surrounding region called Bulga, a border march of the Kingdom of Habashat ruled by the Zagwe dynasty. In 1270 Yekuno Amlak and his soldiers violently overthrew the Zagwe, murdering the last Zagwe king in a church, and took control of the state, enthroned as “Yagba Seyon”. Yekuno Amlak ruled over a small state in the middle highlands and the throne he had seized supposedly accepted suzerainty over most of the horn of Africa, but in reality ruled over almost nothing, vast areas with “vassals” that did not recognize the king’s authority.
Yekuno Amlak had many sons, and to avoid a bloody succession conflict he had his sons agree to rule in succession for a single year each after he died in 1294. This scheme worked until the fifth son decided he liked being king and threw his brothers all in jail in 1299. The parentage of Amde Seyon may also have had something to do with this.
Amde Seyon (Pillar of Zion) was born to this fifth son Wedem Arad’s wife, but his father was Wedem Arad’s brother Qidma Asgad. Amde Seyon found this embarrassing and a terrible fate befell anyone who brought up anything related to this in the presence of Amde Seyon. Wedem Arad was either not aware of the parentage of Amde Seyon or didn’t care, because he made Amde Seyon his heir.
Wedem Arad was not a conqueror like his father or his nephew/son, and he sought to solidify his position through subterfuge and diplomacy. He dispatched the first embassy to Europe attempting to establish an anti-Muslim alliance with the kings of Spain, and when faced with an invasion by a hostile Muslim ruler named Mohammed Abu Abdallah he sent agents to bribe his army to switch sides and forced Abu Abdallah into signing a treaty instead, without a single casualty.
Wedem Arad died in 1314, after a relatively quiet reign, and Amde Seyon succeeded him taking the throne name “Gabra Masqal”. Amde Seyon had been taught by his uncle/father how to exploit diplomacy and subterfuge to his advantage, and this education would serve him well, but his nature and inclination was conquest. Amde Seyon reformed and reorganized the army along the lines of the Empire of Aksum, with reorganized levies but a central core of professional soldiers, the vital tool of any conqueror.
The year after he took power, Amde Seyon immediately doubled the size of his kingdom, attacking Damot, Gojjam and Hadiya in 1315. To prevent organized resistance to his conquest, as soon as he conquered these kingdoms he uprooted and resettled much of the population of these kingdoms elsewhere in the kingdom of Habashat and resettled them issuing his soldiers and the church land grants, forever shattering the nations that had inhabited these regions for millennia.
Early in his reign it was Amde Seyon who commissioned the Kebre Negest, a fraudulent document based off an Egyptian history of King Solomon that connected the ruling dynasty of Amde Seyon to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, rewriting most of Ethiopian history up to that point, and granting his rule a divine destiny.
In 1320 Amde Seyon received news of persecution of Coptic christians in Egypt and the arrest of the Coptic Pope from the newly ascendant Mamelukes of Egypt under an-Nasir Muhammed. Along with the kings of Spain and France who also threatened military action Amde Seyon threatened to attack Muslim pilgrims and especially to divert the Nile. This threat to divert the Nile deeply spooked the rulers of Egypt and remains a fear to the present day.
The sultan of Ifat, Haqquddin, leading a kingdom that was also on the rise and on its way to preeminence in the east, positioned himself as the champion of Muslims and was outraged at Amde Seyon’s threats and provocations towards Muslim pilgrims. He was further encouraged by an-Nasir Muhammed to attack Amde Seyon. Haqquddin took advantage of the lack of sea access for the Kingdom of Habashat to capture Amde Seyon’s envoy to Egypt as he returned. Depending on the version of the story, Haqquddin either forcibly circumcised him, attempted to convert him to Islam, killed him, or all three. This incident prompted immediate war between Habashat and Ifat. This was the most difficult opponent that Amde Seyon had yet faced, as Ifat was a strong kingdom.
Ifat was also on the rise, having recently annexed the rival kingdom of Shawa and dominating the eastern escarpment, surrounding the old principality of Yekuno Amlak on two sides. This battle between Haqquddin would decide which of these rising stars would rule over all the others. Despite a difficult war and incursions into his kingdom from many directions from various Muslim vassals of the king of Ifat, he killed Haqquddin in battle and subjugated Ifat and all its lands in 1328, with Ifat itself a vassal of Habashat.
Amde Seyon did not rest on this victory but rather immediately turned north and demanded the lords of Tigray recognize him as king of Habashat. The lords of Tigray had not acknowledged the dominion of the Habashat Kingdom for centuries and the lord of Enderta in particular had begun to use the title King of Enderta. The lords of Tigray dismissed Amde Seyon as a pretender from the south, and were exceedingly proud of their lineages and titles stretching back to the Aksumite Empire, and refused to acknowledge him as king of Habashat and asserted their independence. He marched north and smashed them, taking from them their lands and titles and castles, and placed his Tigray wife Jan Mangasha as his viceroy in Tigray. While he was away in the north, the Muslims he had just defeated saw how things were going, and how East Africa was rapidly running out of kingdoms to oppose Amde Seyon.
The king of Mora, Qadi Salah, called together all the Muslim kings of east Africa. From west to east, north to south, and urged them to stand together, they would form a grand coalition and defeat Amde Seyon in decisive holy war. The kingdoms of Adal, Ifat (in rebellion, let by Haqquddin’s brother Sabraddin) Bakla, Hagara, Fadse, Gadai, Nagab, Zuba, Harla, Dawaro, Hobat, Hangila, Tarshish, Ayn, Ilbiro, Beta Israel (who were Jewish, not Muslim), Bazin, Bahr, Qitaa, Bazin and Este all declared war on Amde Seyon at once, drawing troops from several hundred regions. While outnumbering Amde Seyon about 10:1, the kingdoms were spread all over east Africa, so they had trouble concentrating their forces. Amde Seyon, still in the north, moved quickly to attack the isolated northern kingdoms, crushing them in a swift campaign destroyed Qitaa, Bazin and the Bahr Negus and reaching the Red Sea and taking the fortress of Arqiqo. The kingdom of Habashat had not had a coastline since 714, so this was very significant.
His army then moved south to the Jewish kingdom of Beta Israel, which had sacked Aksum in the 9th century, crushing their armies and swiftly capturing their capital of Gonder and breaking the power of the kings of Beta Israel forever. Gonder would go on to be a royal capital of later kings of Habashat.
Having wiped out the threats to his flanks, Amde Seyon marched on the main opponent in the east and south. While dealing with the north and the west, Sabraddin had invaded much of the kingdom of Habashat with no resistance and was feeling pretty full of himself. He declared that he would take the title of Emperor for himself, that he would make all the churches into mosques, he would make Amde Seyon a camel herder and make his wife Jan Mangasha grind corn for him. Then Amde Seyon’s army arrived, having just destroyed Sabraddin’s northern and western allies.
Yekuno Amlak had many sons, and to avoid a bloody succession conflict he had his sons agree to rule in succession for a single year each after he died in 1294. This scheme worked until the fifth son decided he liked being king and threw his brothers all in jail in 1299. The parentage of Amde Seyon may also have had something to do with this.
Amde Seyon (Pillar of Zion) was born to this fifth son Wedem Arad’s wife, but his father was Wedem Arad’s brother Qidma Asgad. Amde Seyon found this embarrassing and a terrible fate befell anyone who brought up anything related to this in the presence of Amde Seyon. Wedem Arad was either not aware of the parentage of Amde Seyon or didn’t care, because he made Amde Seyon his heir.
Wedem Arad was not a conqueror like his father or his nephew/son, and he sought to solidify his position through subterfuge and diplomacy. He dispatched the first embassy to Europe attempting to establish an anti-Muslim alliance with the kings of Spain, and when faced with an invasion by a hostile Muslim ruler named Mohammed Abu Abdallah he sent agents to bribe his army to switch sides and forced Abu Abdallah into signing a treaty instead, without a single casualty.
Wedem Arad died in 1314, after a relatively quiet reign, and Amde Seyon succeeded him taking the throne name “Gabra Masqal”. Amde Seyon had been taught by his uncle/father how to exploit diplomacy and subterfuge to his advantage, and this education would serve him well, but his nature and inclination was conquest. Amde Seyon reformed and reorganized the army along the lines of the Empire of Aksum, with reorganized levies but a central core of professional soldiers, the vital tool of any conqueror.
The year after he took power, Amde Seyon immediately doubled the size of his kingdom, attacking Damot, Gojjam and Hadiya in 1315. To prevent organized resistance to his conquest, as soon as he conquered these kingdoms he uprooted and resettled much of the population of these kingdoms elsewhere in the kingdom of Habashat and resettled them issuing his soldiers and the church land grants, forever shattering the nations that had inhabited these regions for millennia.
Early in his reign it was Amde Seyon who commissioned the Kebre Negest, a fraudulent document based off an Egyptian history of King Solomon that connected the ruling dynasty of Amde Seyon to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, rewriting most of Ethiopian history up to that point, and granting his rule a divine destiny.
In 1320 Amde Seyon received news of persecution of Coptic christians in Egypt and the arrest of the Coptic Pope from the newly ascendant Mamelukes of Egypt under an-Nasir Muhammed. Along with the kings of Spain and France who also threatened military action Amde Seyon threatened to attack Muslim pilgrims and especially to divert the Nile. This threat to divert the Nile deeply spooked the rulers of Egypt and remains a fear to the present day.
The sultan of Ifat, Haqquddin, leading a kingdom that was also on the rise and on its way to preeminence in the east, positioned himself as the champion of Muslims and was outraged at Amde Seyon’s threats and provocations towards Muslim pilgrims. He was further encouraged by an-Nasir Muhammed to attack Amde Seyon. Haqquddin took advantage of the lack of sea access for the Kingdom of Habashat to capture Amde Seyon’s envoy to Egypt as he returned. Depending on the version of the story, Haqquddin either forcibly circumcised him, attempted to convert him to Islam, killed him, or all three. This incident prompted immediate war between Habashat and Ifat. This was the most difficult opponent that Amde Seyon had yet faced, as Ifat was a strong kingdom.
Ifat was also on the rise, having recently annexed the rival kingdom of Shawa and dominating the eastern escarpment, surrounding the old principality of Yekuno Amlak on two sides. This battle between Haqquddin would decide which of these rising stars would rule over all the others. Despite a difficult war and incursions into his kingdom from many directions from various Muslim vassals of the king of Ifat, he killed Haqquddin in battle and subjugated Ifat and all its lands in 1328, with Ifat itself a vassal of Habashat.
Amde Seyon did not rest on this victory but rather immediately turned north and demanded the lords of Tigray recognize him as king of Habashat. The lords of Tigray had not acknowledged the dominion of the Habashat Kingdom for centuries and the lord of Enderta in particular had begun to use the title King of Enderta. The lords of Tigray dismissed Amde Seyon as a pretender from the south, and were exceedingly proud of their lineages and titles stretching back to the Aksumite Empire, and refused to acknowledge him as king of Habashat and asserted their independence. He marched north and smashed them, taking from them their lands and titles and castles, and placed his Tigray wife Jan Mangasha as his viceroy in Tigray. While he was away in the north, the Muslims he had just defeated saw how things were going, and how East Africa was rapidly running out of kingdoms to oppose Amde Seyon.
The king of Mora, Qadi Salah, called together all the Muslim kings of east Africa. From west to east, north to south, and urged them to stand together, they would form a grand coalition and defeat Amde Seyon in decisive holy war. The kingdoms of Adal, Ifat (in rebellion, let by Haqquddin’s brother Sabraddin) Bakla, Hagara, Fadse, Gadai, Nagab, Zuba, Harla, Dawaro, Hobat, Hangila, Tarshish, Ayn, Ilbiro, Beta Israel (who were Jewish, not Muslim), Bazin, Bahr, Qitaa, Bazin and Este all declared war on Amde Seyon at once, drawing troops from several hundred regions. While outnumbering Amde Seyon about 10:1, the kingdoms were spread all over east Africa, so they had trouble concentrating their forces. Amde Seyon, still in the north, moved quickly to attack the isolated northern kingdoms, crushing them in a swift campaign destroyed Qitaa, Bazin and the Bahr Negus and reaching the Red Sea and taking the fortress of Arqiqo. The kingdom of Habashat had not had a coastline since 714, so this was very significant.
His army then moved south to the Jewish kingdom of Beta Israel, which had sacked Aksum in the 9th century, crushing their armies and swiftly capturing their capital of Gonder and breaking the power of the kings of Beta Israel forever. Gonder would go on to be a royal capital of later kings of Habashat.
Having wiped out the threats to his flanks, Amde Seyon marched on the main opponent in the east and south. While dealing with the north and the west, Sabraddin had invaded much of the kingdom of Habashat with no resistance and was feeling pretty full of himself. He declared that he would take the title of Emperor for himself, that he would make all the churches into mosques, he would make Amde Seyon a camel herder and make his wife Jan Mangasha grind corn for him. Then Amde Seyon’s army arrived, having just destroyed Sabraddin’s northern and western allies.
Sabraddin was very swiftly defeated and all the treasure he had looted in his advance was recaptured. Amde Seyon marched on Dawaro and destroyed the armies of Haydara the Sultan of Dawaro, then marched to Zeila and sacked it. Sabraddin meekly wrote a letter suing for peace to Jan Mangasha, who wrote back telling him to talk to her husband. To spare his kingdom, Sabraddin surrendered to Amde Seyon, who promptly clapped him in irons and replaced him with his brother Jamaluddin. Jamaluddin had been imprisoned and ill treated by Sabraddin and Amde Seyon expected Jamaluddin to be a reliable vassal, and Ifat’s domain extended far into the east where many Somali clans owed it fealty and was too much trouble to occupy.
Qadi Salah saw that all the kings would be destroyed one by one if they didn’t stand together as one force, and urged all the remaining armies to muster to Mora where they would make one last decisive stand against Amde Seyon. Salah begged Jamaluddin, who had literally just been made king by Amde Seyon to immediately rebel and join him in Mora, which he did. In Mora the remaining armies gathered and mustered, the armies of 16 kings.
While the army was mustering Amde Seyon recognized the threat if the army could fully muster, so he embarked on a risky plan. He crossed the Awash river in 1331 and marched on Mora, into the searing hot lowlands into which many highland armies had marched but few had returned.
Crossing the river Yas the coalition army of Qadi Salah and 15 other kings accepted decisive battle at a place called Das.
Das was a harsh land, described thusly “Though it was the middle of winter the heat was so great that it burnt up man and beast, there was no grass, and only stinking water from wells was to be had, and even this had to be carefully rationed. “
Though heavily outnumbered, the vast force assembled by Salah was disorganized and not fully prepared for battle, and Amde Seyon’s army was composed of veterans of many campaigns with a professional core. The battle was intense and in the midst of battle the king Amde Seyon was struck with a sword, but this did not penetrate his armour and he was unhurt.
The Battle of Das ended with decisive victory for Amde Seyon, who subjugated all the kingdoms who had opposed him, the undisputed emperor of all of Ethiopia. The vast empire he had carved out of Ethiopia at sword-point would be uncontested for several generations, until the final rebellion of Ifat that would set in motion the one hundred and fifty year long war that would destroy the Empire of Ethiopia beginning in 1414.
Amde Seyon would die in 1344, leaving his vast empire to his capable son Newaya Krestos who would take the throne name Sayfa Arad, or the Sword of Terror.
Qadi Salah saw that all the kings would be destroyed one by one if they didn’t stand together as one force, and urged all the remaining armies to muster to Mora where they would make one last decisive stand against Amde Seyon. Salah begged Jamaluddin, who had literally just been made king by Amde Seyon to immediately rebel and join him in Mora, which he did. In Mora the remaining armies gathered and mustered, the armies of 16 kings.
While the army was mustering Amde Seyon recognized the threat if the army could fully muster, so he embarked on a risky plan. He crossed the Awash river in 1331 and marched on Mora, into the searing hot lowlands into which many highland armies had marched but few had returned.
Crossing the river Yas the coalition army of Qadi Salah and 15 other kings accepted decisive battle at a place called Das.
Das was a harsh land, described thusly “Though it was the middle of winter the heat was so great that it burnt up man and beast, there was no grass, and only stinking water from wells was to be had, and even this had to be carefully rationed. “
Though heavily outnumbered, the vast force assembled by Salah was disorganized and not fully prepared for battle, and Amde Seyon’s army was composed of veterans of many campaigns with a professional core. The battle was intense and in the midst of battle the king Amde Seyon was struck with a sword, but this did not penetrate his armour and he was unhurt.
The Battle of Das ended with decisive victory for Amde Seyon, who subjugated all the kingdoms who had opposed him, the undisputed emperor of all of Ethiopia. The vast empire he had carved out of Ethiopia at sword-point would be uncontested for several generations, until the final rebellion of Ifat that would set in motion the one hundred and fifty year long war that would destroy the Empire of Ethiopia beginning in 1414.
Amde Seyon would die in 1344, leaving his vast empire to his capable son Newaya Krestos who would take the throne name Sayfa Arad, or the Sword of Terror.
Yeah u r mostly correct here. Can't a kingdom be a province of another kingdom despite being older ?
Okey bro if that makes you happy
Since we have closed this chapterYeah u r mostly correct here. Can't a kingdom be a province of another kingdom despite being older ?
Okey bro if that makes you happy
Tell me how your amhara clergy made up the stories that oromo came from Madagascar or from the water.
Also amhara claimming to be hebrew is like this dude who talks about sudanese that think themselves as arabs.
Kim
Well, the madagascar story wasn't created by the Ethiopian clergy but actually by a guy called Alaqa Taye in 1955, claiming that the oromos migrated from madagascar to Ethiopia. And this is not true. The ancestors of oromos most likely reproduced in the regions of northern kenya and the outmost southern tip of Ethiopia, before they decided to migrate taking advantage of the universal chaos following the Abyssinian vs Adal war.
The hebrew thing, is complicated, the part of the habeshas having Israelite blood might have some truth. For example according to Wolf Leslu and many other scholars, one of the closest languages to Ethiosemitic is Akkadian, Sabean(they came from levant) and Hebrew. The Gedle Asfe documents which was compiled in the hay-days of Aksum specifically details the arrival of the Israelites and their intermixing with the indigenous ppl. The DNA study I posted showed that. The @Amusse guy is incorrect, there was several geneflows to Ethiopia from levant the most recent one being 3000 years ago and is found among the habeshas. The part where the guys said they aren't black and have burnt face is just hilarious and I don't know how people can take it seriously
if anything it displays the prevailing racial mindset imposed on africans by the whites. The ghanian girl in one of the interviews said thats she sees Nigerians as inferior See this short video on Ethiopians from the 50s by whites labelling them as Caucasian, it was just propaganda. Nearly all Ethiopians see themselves as black Africans.
Well, the madagascar story wasn't created by the Ethiopian clergy but actually by a guy called Alaqa Taye in 1955, claiming that the oromos migrated from madagascar to Ethiopia. And this is not true. The ancestors of oromos most likely reproduced in the regions of northern kenya and the outmost southern tip of Ethiopia, before they decided to migrate taking advantage of the universal chaos following the Abyssinian vs Adal war.
The hebrew thing, is complicated, the part of the habeshas having Israelite blood might have some truth. For example according to Wolf Leslu and many other scholars, one of the closest languages to Ethiosemitic is Akkadian, Sabean(they came from levant) and Hebrew. The Gedle Asfe documents which was compiled in the hay-days of Aksum specifically details the arrival of the Israelites and their intermixing with the indigenous ppl. The DNA study I posted showed that. The @Amusse guy is incorrect, there was several geneflows to Ethiopia from levant the most recent one being 3000 years ago and is found among the habeshas. The part where the guys said they aren't black and have burnt face is just hilarious and I don't know how people can take it seriously
if anything it displays the prevailing racial mindset imposed on africans by the whites. The ghanian girl in one of the interviews said thats she sees Nigerians as inferior See this short video on Ethiopians from the 50s by whites labelling them as Caucasian, it was just propaganda. Nearly all Ethiopians see themselves as black Africans.Once again, there isn't a single evidence for this buddy, its clear this is based on the resentment towards amharas most somalis have. Gurages, Amharas, tigrayans, tigré, maya,gaffat,argobba all are descendants of aksumites and its become more evident as they are indistinguishable DNA-wise . As the Aksumites expanded more and more southwards they branched off to the different tribes. During the 8th-9th century.
"Gurage, ethnolinguistic group of the fertile and semi-mountainous region some 150 miles (240 kilometres) south and west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, bounded by the Awash River on the north, the Gilgel Gibe River (a tributary of the Omo River) on the southwest, and Lake Ziway on the east. The groups that are subsumed under the term Gurage originated in the Tigray region of Ethiopia as the descendants of military conquerors during the Aksumite empire. The Gurage languages, which are not always mutually intelligible, belong to the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Some of these have been influenced by neighbouring Cushitic languages. The Gurage are mainly Christian—members largely of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church—and Muslim."
Gurage | Ethiopia, Language, Culture
Gurage, ethnolinguistic group of the fertile and semi-mountainous region some 150 miles (240 kilometres) south and west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, bounded by the Awash River on the north, the Gilgel Gibe River (a tributary of the Omo River) on the southwest, and Lake Ziway on the east. The groups
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