RIDING THE WHIRLWIND: AN ETHIOPIAN STORY OF LOVE AND REVOLUTION
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Author:
Bereket Habte Selassie
Publisher: Red Sea Press
City: Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Educational ትáˆáˆ…áˆá‰³á‹Š, Fiction áˆá‰ ወለድ, Historical ታሪኻዊ, Modern ዘመናዊ, Political á–ሊቲካዊ
Date: Circa 1997
Date Details: 1997
Pagination: 331
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Notes:
This historical novel is set in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the early to mid 1970s. This was a very turbulent and historic period in Ethiopian and Eritrean history, when the last emperor, Haile Selassie, was deposed in the 1974 coup which gave rise to the military regime of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. The author, Bereket Habte Selassie, is a prominent Eritrean, and a professor of Law and politics in the United States. He was also Commisioner of the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea, which resulted in the drafting of Eritrea's first post-independence constitution in 1997. The plot of this novel, as well as the unique experiences of the protagonist, who was both an official in the imperial government of Haile Selassie, and a leader in the underground revolutionary movement, is undoubtedly informed by the author's own experience as Attorney General of Ethiopia, and a committed member of the Eritrean liberation movement. Several characters in this novel are easily recognizable figures in Ethiopian history: Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam appears as Mengesha Haile Mehariam, and the General Iman of this novel is closely based on the actual General Aman Michael-Andom(mentioned in the author's dedication), one of the leaders of the 1974 coup who supported a political rather than a miitary solution to the Eritrean issue, and who was one of the coup leaders who was executed during the "purges" committed by Mengistu Haile Mariam's supporters immediately after the coup. The book which appears here is the first paperback edition of the novel, printed in 1997(the original hardcover was printed in 1993).
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Artifact record edited by Lwam Ghebrehariat at 2004-07-26 11:58:33
Publisher: Red Sea Press
City: Lawrenceville, New Jersey
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Educational ትáˆáˆ…áˆá‰³á‹Š, Fiction áˆá‰ ወለድ, Historical ታሪኻዊ, Modern ዘመናዊ, Political á–ሊቲካዊ
Date: Circa 1997
Date Details: 1997
Pagination: 331
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Notes:
This historical novel is set in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the early to mid 1970s. This was a very turbulent and historic period in Ethiopian and Eritrean history, when the last emperor, Haile Selassie, was deposed in the 1974 coup which gave rise to the military regime of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. The author, Bereket Habte Selassie, is a prominent Eritrean, and a professor of Law and politics in the United States. He was also Commisioner of the Constitutional Commission of Eritrea, which resulted in the drafting of Eritrea's first post-independence constitution in 1997. The plot of this novel, as well as the unique experiences of the protagonist, who was both an official in the imperial government of Haile Selassie, and a leader in the underground revolutionary movement, is undoubtedly informed by the author's own experience as Attorney General of Ethiopia, and a committed member of the Eritrean liberation movement. Several characters in this novel are easily recognizable figures in Ethiopian history: Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam appears as Mengesha Haile Mehariam, and the General Iman of this novel is closely based on the actual General Aman Michael-Andom(mentioned in the author's dedication), one of the leaders of the 1974 coup who supported a political rather than a miitary solution to the Eritrean issue, and who was one of the coup leaders who was executed during the "purges" committed by Mengistu Haile Mariam's supporters immediately after the coup. The book which appears here is the first paperback edition of the novel, printed in 1997(the original hardcover was printed in 1993).
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Artifact record edited by Lwam Ghebrehariat at 2004-07-26 11:58:33
