Ethiopia’s victory at Adwa is the focus of both this celebration and, the feature of this film.
     Haile Gerima made this masterpiece from the oral history accounts of his own father, and  other Ethiopians whose fathers may have fought in the conflict or otherwise provided accounts of the event from the  geopolitical or pan-African perspectives.

 The film is respected as “a spiritual documentary” and “among the greatest films to absorb art treasures into their being and make these come alive, both to the eye and the soul of the viewer… 
     

Emperor Menelik may have seemed the hero, but it was always the people: vast numbers that gathered from distant communities to face their well-armored, well-weaponed Goliath with a stone and a sling—whatever they had. Those who had nothing took weapons from fallen Italian soldiers. Their victory grew into the sunlight of legend, inspiring movements—Pan-African; nationalist ones; the U.S. civil rights movement. .” ..Gru

The event will also feature tributes from Baltimore attorney, Dejazmatch Georgis Rose, student groups and other personalities.