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MEDIA HISTORY
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 355-369Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13688804.2021.1901566
Keywords
Resistance; League of Nations; Haile Selassie; patriots; Italy; atrocities; freedom
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This study explores the history of Ethiopia's resistance against Italian colonial aggression as reported by New Times and Ethiopia News (NTEN), highlighting narratives of victimhood, resistance, and victory. The paper covers the period 1936-41 and focuses on Ethiopia's efforts in anti-fascist struggle.
The paper navigates Ethiopia's history of resistance against Italian colonial aggression as reported by New Times and Ethiopia News (NTEN) founded and edited by Sylvia Pankhurst in defence of Ethiopia. Her London-based weekly, which started the day fascist forces took control of Addis Ababa, was in the years to come to step up discursive pressure on Italy and the big powers for the salvation of the Eastern African nation. The paper reported on the freedom fighters' victories in the antifascist resistance through the empire as well as the diplomatic and activist crusades in Geneva, London and the United States by the government in exile as well as friends of Ethiopia. Using a sample of archival corpus of the newspaper and employing rhetorical methods, the study examines narratives of victimhood, resistance and victory as carried in headlines covering the period 1936-41.
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