A long tradition

During his July 24 2010 address at Addis Ababa University, former President Thabo Mbeki affirmed the centrality of the Ethiopianist movement of independent black Christianity to the development of African nationalism saying: “The African National Congress of South Africa, the oldest modern national liberation movement on our continent, was born out of our country’s Ethiopian Churches. Indeed the African nationalism which drove our national liberation movement was described as Ethiopianism.”