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Oct 19 2015

The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski

By Doug Merrill in Doug, History, Politics
October 19, 2015

By the time Ryszard Kapuściński returned to Ethiopia, the revolution had already swept Emperor Haile Selassie from power. He engaged in something like journalistic archaeology, digging up the people of the Palace from where they had gone to ground to avoid execution in the violence that followed the revolution. The Emperor reads as if it …

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Apr 12 2009

A History of Ethiopia by Harold Marcus

By Al Singh in Al, History
April 12, 2009

African history usually depresses me, but the history of Ethiopia is encouraging and inspiring. A lot of people in the West don’t know this, but Ethiopia is a mostly Christian country and has been for most of its history. It is, in fact, one of the oldest continuously Christian countries in the world. Furthermore, even …