Tag: Ethiopian

Mystery Colonial Italian Gun?

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Askari Miniatures Gun 'A3'

Can you identify this mysterious Italian Mountain Gun…? Askari Miniatures produce the illustrated Italian Mountain Gun – and while it is modelled on actual photographs of Italian guns it has not been positively identified exactly what model and calibre the weapon is.

Askari describe it thus: “Italian Mountain gun from the 1890s. Used by the Italian Askari camel and mule-mounted gun companies.“

I am attempting to identify exactly what weapon it is, when it entered service with the Italians (and for how long, i.e. was it still in use in WW1 or even WW2) and whether it may have been used by Nations other than the Italians (if it was for example an exported Krupp or DeBange gun or similar).

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Eyes from Ethiopia

Eyes from Ethiopia
Eyes from Ethiopia

In November 2008, New Zealand Photographer Kate MacPherson introduced sixteen children from Mercy Home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to digital cameras. All had come either directly from living on the streets or from extremely poor and underprivileged backgrounds and had never seen a camera before. Their enthusiasm and delight in photography have culminated in some incredibly unique and inspired imagery. You can view and buy their images (the funds from purchases going to support them). Learn more at Eyes from Ethiopia…

 

 

The Sword and the Flame [TSATF]

Larry Brom wrote TSATF in 1979, and 30 years later it’s still going strong with very little changes! Having played TTG’s Soldiers of the Queen* [SotQ] fairly extensively since it was published in 1987 (in my earlier wargaming years) until a long hiatus from all colonial gaming in the early 1990s, I was only introduced to TSATF in recent years for the first time…

* Not to be confused with the Victorian Military Society’s Journal “Soldiers of the Queen“!

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