Haile Fida ena YeGill Tizita (My Reminiscences of Haile Fida) is a moving account of the life and death of an Ethiopian revolutionary who perished at the hands of the most brutal Ethiopian dictator some 40 years ago. It is a book imbued with passion, pain and grief, honesty and vigour, and lucidly [...]
Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie's government, tells both the story of the emperor's life and the s[...]
Haile was born in Ethiopia in 1965 and lived there until she was eleven years old. When the Emperor was deposed by a military coup, Haile's father was shot while 'resisting arrest'. Barely surviving, he escaped with his family and settled in central Minnesota where they struggled with the cultural a[...]
The author of this book has been meeting up with the world's best marathon runner since 2005, following his world record runs at first hand and visiting him several times in Addis Abeaba. He has traced his background, travelled the length and breadth of the African highlands, unearthed interesting E[...]
Författaren Uno Grönkvist har mött många spännande och färgstarka personligheter och skildrar sina upplevelser av dem i en nostalgisk resa som sträcker sig över sjuttio år. Där finns kungligheter och politiker, entreprenörer och andra makthavare, kulturprofiler, underhållare, idrottsstj�[...]
After the Second World War the relations between Emperor Heile Sellasie (1892-1975) and the Swedish missionary Per Stjärne (1895-1984) came to play a central role in the development of close cooperation between Ethiopia and Sweden.This work is a description of the very close friendship between the [...]