How little changes
Famine & Foreigners :Book Review
Jul 15th 2010
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid. By Peter Gill. OUP; 304 pages; £14.99. To be published in America by OUP in September. Buy from Amazon.co.uk
SO PREDICTABLE was the result ...
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New Yorker’s 20 under 40: a diverse and interesting line-up
By Linda Nylind for the Guardian:
Authors from countries including China and Ethiopia bring a fresh tempo to the story of life in 21st-century America
Dinaw Mengestu speaks for a generation of young Ethiopians.
Anyone concerned tha...
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Precious Ethiopian psalter will take its rightful place
By Nancy Haught, The Oregonian
Before he opened it, Steve Delamarter knew the book before him would be extraordinary. The smooth sienna leather was worn in a few places but hand-tooled and carefully fitted together inside the cover. The rough edges ...
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Cruel Ethiopia
by Helen Epstein
Parts of southern Ethiopia resemble the scenery in a Tarzan movie. When I was there last fall, the green forested hills were blanketed in white mist and rain poured down on the small farms and homesteads. In the towns, slabs of mea...
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A tale of Ethiopia’s brutal revolution
A tale of Ethiopia’s brutal revolution
By Abebe Gellaw
Since the 1974 revolution, Ethiopia has witnessed cycles of unimaginable violence. City streets as well as remote villages that are normally far from the influence of the brutal political e...
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Must Read Book: Ethiopia – Tiwoldena Kirsu [A Generation and Its Heritage]
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Ethiopia : A Generation and Its Heritage:
There has been much written about Ethiopia’s history. But, only few books are written by Ethiopians that provide enhanced understanding to this great nation's history.
Tesfaye Mekonnen’s new book...
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New in paperback: ‘Cutting for Stone’ by Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage, $15.95, fiction, reprint) USA TODAY's Jocelyn McClurg called this epic novel about the lives of conjoined (then separated) twins born to a nun in Ethiopia "an underdog and a winner. Shades of Slumdog Mi...
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A novel resolves childhood memories of the Ethiopian revolution
by Euan Kerr, Minnesota Public Radio
So she wrote "Beneath the Lion's Gaze," a critically-acclaimed novel about a family living through the Ethiopian revolution. The story also tells of the last days of Hailie Selassie before his death in prison.
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George Ayittey on “Dead Aid”
TED: Dambisa Moyo's new book is drawing new attention to the question of aid in Africa, andher thesis is quite like yours, but aimed at a mass-market audience, as she said on Charlie Rose.
Do you think it is risky to sensationalize the issue?
AYI...
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Battle Scars
By Lorraine Adams:
Published: December 31, 2009
Alone among African nations, the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia never submitted to colonialism. (It chased the Italians out in 1941 after a five-year occupation.) Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s emperor, ...
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Book Signing:Abate Yachin Se’at”: Major General Demissie Bulto and the May 81 coup d’état attemp
Book Signing and discussion : "Abate Yachin Se’at": Major General Demissie Bulto and the May 81 coup d'état attempt.
Aesop Publishers presents Ato Derege Demissie, Attorney at law and author of the book, "Abate Yachin Se’at": Major Ge...
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A New Book “የማታ እንጀራ የግጥም መጽሃፍ ” by Alemtsehay Wedajo
A New Book entitled “የማታ እንጀራ የግጥም መጽሃፍ ” will be released at the end of this month.
Poet/writer/artist Alemtshay Wedajo will have a Book Signing and Poetry Night event on Saturday, October 30, 2009 at 6 pm.
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Wonderful Ethiopians
Taken from the book by Dr Rusilla Dunjee Houston:
OKLAHOMA , U. S. A. 1926 ;
Wonderful Ethiopians
The Ethiopian is a great race, probably the oldest. It is a race that does not die out under adversity. When other races are sullen, or de...
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Book Review: Major General Demissie Bulto and the coup d’état of May 1989
"Abateh Yachin Se’at": Major General Demissie Bulto and the coup d'état of May 1989. A new Book by Derege Demissie
In “Abateh Yachin Se’at,” author Derege Demissie narrates the story of his late father, Major General Demissi...
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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working For Africa
Author: A Zambian Economist Dambisa Moyo: a consultant to the World Bank & a specialist in sub-Saharan Africa
A must read book! Particularly for bewildered idiot- worshipers of Melese Zenawi or TPLF’s admirers . The Washera likes would benefi...
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Reflections on Tesfaye Gebreab’s “Ye Gazetegnaw Mastawesha”
I have been following like many the great interests generated by “Ye Gazetegnaw Mastawesha”, a book written by Tesfaye Gebreab. While many have raised legitimate points regarding Tesfaye Gebreab’s past and his role as a press/propaganda officia...
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የቡርቃ ዝምታ ፡ የሆዳሞች እይታ፡ የወያኔ ጨዎታ!
Once known as the melting pot of multi-ethnic society (people of different ethnic groups, cultures, and religions) in Africa, Ethiopia is now being exploited by irresponsible rulers who continue to spread Ethnic hatred to serve their divide and rul...
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Doctors and Sons: Abraham Verghese Reads from his Debut Novel, Cutting for Stone in DC.
Make Sure That You Join the Extraodinary Ethiopian-Indian-American Novelist on Monday, February 16, 7:00pm, Politics & Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
The mention of Kennedy and the Queen of England underscore the implicit coo...
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