A photo of Destà, the child bride whom the Italian journalist and intellectual Indro Montanelli took as a wife during the Italian colonial war in Ethiopia (1936)
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A photo of Destà, the child bride whom the Italian journalist and intellectual Indro Montanelli took as a wife during the Italian colonial war in Ethiopia (1936)

u/Either--9798 — 23 days ago

What if you woke up in Abiy Ahmed’s body? What would happen to the country?

u/Either--9798 — 2 months ago

If the Derg had never overthrown Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, what would Ethiopia look like today? Would it be more like Morocco, Thailand, or something completely different?

u/Either--9798 — 2 months ago

What if Meles Zenawi hadn't died in 2012 and remained in power through the 2010s?

If Meles had stayed in power through the 2010s, how different would Ethiopia be today? Would Abiy come to power, would his economic model survive, and would the EPRDF survive?

u/Either--9798 — 3 months ago
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What if Emperor Menelik II had accepted Italy’s interpretation of the Treaty of Wuchale in 1889 and Ethiopia became an Italian protectorate without the Battle of Adwa ever happening? What would Ethiopia look like today?

u/Either--9798 — 3 months ago