Abyssinia and Its People

Abyssinia and Its People
Author: John Camden Hotten
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1868
Genre: Ethiopia
ISBN:

Consists of quotations from accounts of various travelers to Abyssinia.

Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson

Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson
Author: Wendy Laura Belcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019979331X

Uncovers African influences on the Western imagination during the eighteenth century, paying particular attention to the ways Ethiopia inspired and shaped the work of Samuel Johnson.

The Battle of Adwa

The Battle of Adwa
Author: Paulos Milkias
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0875864147

Ethiopia trounced the Italians in 1896 in the greatest African victory over Europe since Hannibal, but failed to prevent the loss of Eritrea. The event was a powerful constitutive force in the rise of modern Africa and pan-Africanism and resounds in the shared memory of Africans and Black Americans even today.