Bahru Zewde has updated the first edition, adding a new chapter and taking the history through to 1991. 'The new chapter enhances the value of the book as the best historical introduction to modern ...

Ethiopia February 11th, 1855. Tewodros II, once labeled as an outlaw in his country, he was now one of the greatest leaders of Ethiopia! Acting as an excellent strategist Tewodros II knew Ethiopia ...

Ethiopia, with its unparalleled history as the only African nation never ... This ancient practice of memorialization finds a modern parallel in the work of the Ethiopian art collective Yatreda ...