Ethiopia's Empress Taytu: The Military Strategist Europe Underestimated
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How does Empress Taytu frame setbacks as setups for greater opportunities?
Be encouraged for some this whoever's listening to me. Every setback, listen to me, is a setup. Every failure is is putting you in the in formation. Right. So remember that when you're going through something uh in your season or in your situation, uh you're being prepared for something bigger and better. All right, let's go. Now we talked about the Forgotten Visionary Four Marriages. Now we're gonna get into uh Tayitu uh versus Europe and strategic divinity. Now the chess match. Now for those who know I'd love to play the game with chess. I enjoy it. Um there's some young people. at the uh the at the middle school out here they're trying to get a chess club started and you know they they enjoy i enjoy watching them play and then you know i i will play with them and teach them a little bit and but i enjoy playing uh i enjoy playing chess so one thing i learned while studying
While studying the Empress uh Tayitu. And her influence or her her involvement with Europe. She was playing chess and them boys were playing checkers. Yeah. She was playing chess and them boys were playing checking. She The Black Queen Let's play in Jess. All right. I let let me explain it. So She she had she encountered that the British gambit almost every Every Major African nation has fell to the British gambit. Okay. Let me show you. Let me show you how she played it. So, um, because here's what people don't understand. Okay. Tay 2 wasn't fighting Italy. She was fighting, she was playing multiple games of chess with various nations. She was playing against Britain, okay, one, France, Germany, and Italy, all at
one time. And she was winning. I had to tell you that. She was going up against Britain. France Germany And Italy all at once. She was playing again. She was playing chess and them boys are playing checkers. Yeah. Yeah, she she's uh one voice after Africa says she's a true example of black womanhood, queens and warriors, for sure. For sure. Now the British gambit. This is something that the uh Great Britain is they would try to establish influence through friendship. Mm-hmm. They're trying to establish influence through friendship. How? Because Britain, they controlled Egypt to the north, Sudan to the west, because that by that time Sudan has uh as a nation has basically crumbled in a sense. Uh Kenya to the south of Somalia.
So Ethiopia was surrounded. So the British, they they they tried to approach it like this. They sent diplomatic missions, they sent missionaries, you know, uh to to spread the good word and everything. They offer trade agreements. That was the British gamut. They wanted to get they want to uh infiltrate through friendship. They propose technical assistance, uh request mutual defense treaties and everything. Um But this was her counter, this was her response, okay? This is her response. The Queen refused to meet She refused to meet with diplomats without manale being present. That's a queen move right there. Because she knew. They they was good at dividing and conquering. That's the oldest imperialist trick. And so if they can negotiate with her separately, they'll play her against Manelec.
Unity of command, unity of message. So she also demanded all agreements to be written in Amharic first, not in English. Then translated Amharic, because you know they tricky. Why? Because of what happened with the Treaty of Wichale. She wasn't letting uh that happen again. So so she delayed negotiations until she gathered all the information. She sent spies to British territories. She wasn't playing with them. She was not playing with them. He sent spies to British territories, British embassies, British ports. He was She was sending them. And by the time she sat down to negotiate, she knew what they really wanted. She knew what they was uh what they was about, what they were willing to give, what their alternative was, and how many people in the military was already there.
So Britain never uh colonized Ethiopia. Okay. All right. Here we go, the French, of course. They tried to use When Britain tried to use friendship France tried to use economic
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How does Empress Taytu frame setbacks as setups for greater opportunities?
0:00–6:16
2
What was the British “friendship” gambit and how did Taytu counter it?
6:16–17:06
3
How did France try to use railroads and debt to control Ethiopia?
17:06–26:32
4
Why did Taytu reject foreign command of Ethiopian troops?
26:32–35:42
5
What was the real deception behind the Treaty of Wuchale?
35:42–45:36
6
How did Taytu combine faith, discernment, and leadership as ‘strategic divinity’?
45:36–48:29