How did Ethopia manage to successfully defeat Italy in the first Italian Ethiopian war and maintain its independence outside of purely battle in the scramble for Africa?

by mrcynic132

If you could provide some sources for your answers I would sincerely appreciate it.

Georgy_K_Zhukov

While a bit narrow in focus, this older answer might be of interest.

rayallen206

Italians are inferior to the great African people of Ethiopia. On two separate attempts to colonize our beloved nation (1895 & 1935) Italians failed and were either hung from trees or sent back to their homeland missing a limb or two. Let Italy try a third time & I reckon every person of Italian descent from Sicily to Brooklyn will pay extremely dire consequences! The world shall bow to the original black man for we are created in the closest likeness of the one and only God! Ethiopia lives forever!