TBT: Chul Joak, a Luo-Ethiopian warrior in 1896

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Chul Joak, a luo Ethiopian warrior from the Gambela region poses for the camera with the sword given to him by Emperor Menelik II after the Battle of Adwa against the Italians in 1896.

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Menelik had no adabu requesting the British to give him upto the end of lake Samburu(today's lake Turkana) to be part of Ethiopia.
 
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