Shifta
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Shifta is a term mostly used in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia that can be translated as "bandit" or "outlaw", but can include anyone who rebels against an authority or an institution
Ethiopian warriors in 1770, during the Zemene Mesafint
Arbegnoch
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The Arbegnoch were Ethiopian resistance fighters who opposed the Italian occupation of Ethiopia during the period of Italian East Africa.
Shifta
…be translated as "bandit" or "outlaw", but can include anyone who rebels against an authority or an institution that is seen as illegitimate, like the Arbegnoch guerillas during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. The Swahili word was loaned from the Somali shufta during the Shifta War, and is in turn derived…
Arbegnoch forces crossing the Omo River, 1941.
Patriots during the guerrilla period. In the center is future Ethiopian general Jagema Kello.
Ras Desta Damtew just before his execution, 24 February 1937
Italian Communist Ilio Barontini with Ethiopian guerrillas in Gojjam, February 1939