Ethiopia Insight published on 6 May 2025 a commentary titled "Adwa Is Not the Only Oppressive Ethiopian Myth" by Tarfassa W. Barooddee, a self-employed Oromo living in North America.
The conventional narrative describes the 1896 Battle of Adwa as a decisive triumph of a united African nation resisting European imperialism. But the author argues that "this romanticized myth" obscures a harsher truth: victory at Adwa did not spare the subject peoples of the south from oppression and violence. The author concludes that Ethiopian unity cannot be forged by manipulating history.
