Category: Books
Itushi Kawase, a Japanese researcher and anthropologist who studied Ethiopian music and Azmari culture for several years, focuses on portraying people living on the margins of society on the streets of Gondar town. His book, Mischief of the Gods: Tales…
የዝነኛው ናሽናል ቡክ አዋርድ አሸናፊ የሆነው አፍሪካ አሜሪካዊ ታ-ኒሂሲ ኮትስ በ2015 Between the World and Me በሚል ርዕስ ሥር ያሳተመውና በ2017 We Were Eight Years in Power (ለስምንት ዓመታት ያህል ስልጣን ላይ ነበርን) በሚል ርዕስ ያሳተመው ሌላ መጽሐፍ የባርነት አገዛዝና ‘ጂም ክሮው’ የተሰኘው…
In his memoir የዲፕሎማሲ ፋና (Yediplomasi Fana), Teruneh Zenna vividly describes the harrowing experience he spent detained at the Sendafa Police Training School in 1969 after participating in the “Land to the Tiller” demonstration. “When the police arrived, those of…
A small, frail figure with a piercing gaze, Emperor Haile Selassie stood firm against the advance of Mussolini’s Fascist troops. As Italy invaded Ethiopia, the only independent black state to survive the scramble for Africa, the emperor rallied support for…
In the reactions to several interviews I recently gave to different YouTube videos, I have witnessed a number of misunderstandings that need to be straightened out, with the exclusion, as one would expect, of the deliberate distortions coming from the…
As Boris Adjemian’s narration reveals, the Arba Arba Ledjotch (Forty Children), who became the first imperial brass band, were not the first Armenian presence in the country. Armenians had already been established in the royal court for many generations preceding…
The story of the Arba Ledjotch l In 1924, a group of forty children who had survived the 1915 genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turks and had formed a brass band at the Armenian monastery in Jerusalem were recruited and somewhat…
While Bahru Zewde was a third-year student at Haile Selassie University (now Addis Ababa University) in 1968, he took part in a demonstration that left a deep impression on him. The demonstration did not center around a domestic issue, but…
The desire to allow open access to a large number of Ethiopian readers explains the reason why this manuscript was not submitted to a normal academic publisher. At first, an academic institute in Addis Ababa agreed to meet the condition…
Berhane Marqos Wolde Tsadik (1892-1943) was an interpreter, civil servant, diplomat, and government minister. He held several important roles in his career, starting as an interpreter at the Franco-Ethiopian railway and eventually rising to become the director-general of posts, telephones,…