Menelik II: How Ethiopia Modernized Without Being Colonized
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How is modernization different from westernization in Menelik II’s Ethiopia?
what's going on you listen to king cam with jube podcast and jube means message and yes we are here get you something to write on something right with sit back relax we're going to have a good time i hope all is well with you and we're going to talk about modernization versus westernization yeah Yeah, we're going to talk about modernization versus westernization, what Ethiopia got right. See, there's been a lot of chatter the last couple of weeks since I made the other videos concerning Ethiopia in the late 19th, early 20th century. There's been people that's been talking about Russia, if Russia wasn't involved, if Germany wasn't involved. According to the books I have read... According to some of the Bullseye Red, Russia or North Germany was active that far south.
You understand? So, let's miss me on that. But, yeah, welcome back to King Camel Jubay Podcast. And we're going to have this discussion. This is part of a miniseries here, The Birth of Modern Ethiopia. The miniseries, Manalek, Yasu, Zuditu, and Hail Selassie. yeah it's going to be a lot it's going to be a lot but we're going to uh thank you got to thank some of the fam some of the alumni um we're going to break it into three parts we're going to break it into three parts so today we're going to deal with say uh part one modernization versus westernization right so we're going to step into one of the most dramatic complex and transformative eras in ethiopian history uh we're dealing with chapter 10 chapter 10 we almost done richard pankhurst work um the ethiopians a history
He opens up the chapter by saying, the last decades of Manalek's reign, which we're going to deal with, marked the beginning of Ethiopia's modernization, which had been among other reasons why almost a century of internal or external warfare was happening. An unprecedented period of peace, After the Battle of Adwa, the opening up of foreign contacts in the aftermath of the Italian defeat. Yes, the Italians were defeated by the Ethiopians. All right? So, yeah, we're going to deal with that. We're going to deal with that. So, in a sense, this wasn't, say, only a policy change where they just changed paperwork. This isn't just, say, technology arriving at the gates and they move on. This is a moment in history where a thousand-year empire looks at itself in the mirror and says, the world is changing and we should, too.
And if we're going to survive, we have to make it happen. What's going on, Sister Linda? What's going on? She's greeting everybody as they come in. Shout out to the fam. Give my love and regards to Baba Yakya out there in Morocco. Shout out to one of our grand elders here. So shout out to the family. Shout out to Sister Linda. What's going on? Yeah. Greetings, everybody. But yeah, the world is changing. This is at the dawn of the 20th century. And what makes this era kind of different and more profound is that Ethiopia had just done the impossible. It defeated Italy at Ottawa in 1896. So while the rest of Africa was being carved up by the Berlin Conference, uh, by the Ethiopian powers, but I'm sorry, by European powers.
Uh, yeah. Colonialism was happening. Okay. But Ethiopia said, no, what's going on? Grand matter, uh, Tarot. Uh, we got to bring the rock with me nation back. We got to do that. I still got some questions. Hit the like button and greet everybody that you come in. But yes, we are back in full effect. So while the rest of Africa is being carved out by European powers, Ethiopia stood alone, sovereign, independent, and unconquered. Yeah, I said what I said. But victory brings new challenges. What are we going to do next? What is the next thing on the agenda? Because now Ethiopia has to answer the harder question. We know how to fight. We know how to throw hands. But can we build something? Yeah, yeah. We know how to defend ourselves.
We have the military. We have the military might. But can we, at the dawn of a new era, build something? build Ethiopia? Can we modernize without losing our soul? Can we embrace the future without betraying our past?
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