There are heroes whose names are known around the world, and there are heroes whose stories remain hidden in the pages of history.
Colonel Abdisa Aga was one of those forgotten heroes.
An Ethiopian patriot from Wollega, Abdisa Aga became a soldier when he was still very young. At around fourteen years old, he joined the Ethiopian Army, just as his country was entering one of the darkest periods in its history.
In 1935, Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. The following year, Ethiopian forces fought desperately against a much larger and technologically superior Italian army.
Abdisa Aga was among those who resisted.