Unidentified artist, Battle of Adwa, c. 1968, oil on canvas, 192.2 x 92 cm (Smithsonian National Museum of African Art)
Additional resources
Battle of Adwa teaching materials
Raymond Jonas, The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire (Harvard University Press, 2015)
Learn more about the Battle of Adwa with supplemental materials on Raymond Jonas’s website
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