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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
history books are usually prined just once, and then if you want it you need to hit a library
have you tried ALIBRIS for used books?
Abe Books has the sacred art of ehtiopia one from $69 |
the damned library is my whole problem. I had access to all these great books, and now that I am not a student anymore, I have lost my privileges.. in my search to purchase many of the fantastic books I have read over the past few years, I have come to discover they are very very expensive if even available at all..
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Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7
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This two-volume work provides a detailed account of five seasons' archaeological research at Aksum, which Dr Phillipson directed on behalf of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, supported by a major research grant from the Society of Antiquaries. Aksum was, during the first seven centuries AD, the capital of a major state, centred on the ...
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Originally Posted by gualbert
I didn't know Ethiopia had an history (before it was colonized).
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Ethiopia was
never colonized
there are rural Ethiopians who to this day have never even heard of white people, are not even aware that such people exist, and frankly do not even know that they live in Ethiopia or a continent called Africa, or that there are even other
black people.
as an intersting side note, on a PBS show called
Africa Trek a french couple walked from Cape Town to Cairo over a period of two years..
they had a wonderful time sleeping in people's homes, were generally welcomed across africa with open arms, as they were on foot, and not in tourist 4X4 so the Africans felt more at ease and could better relate, but when they came into the Omo River valley in Southern Ethiopia and the Kenyan border, they suddenly found themselves in some shit.
In the Omo River valley are some people like I described above. Now these did not give the french couple a hard time, in fact, it was a rather curious bit of cultural exchange. The Omo a "primitive" even by rural African standards..
As the couple ventured further north in Ethiopia, they discovered what is called the "Ferenj Craze" as literally hundreds of kids swarmed them and followed them along the road, barking insults and even throwing small stones.. they were actually frightened and taken aback, as they had no such experiences in Africa even in Zimbabwe, but Ethiopia is radically different. In the other countries they passed through, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, all were colonized, and in these countries africans got used to white people being around, and even being in charge. So they are accustomed to seeing and respecting white people, even today..
where as in Ethiopia, which was never colonized, the rural youth who seldom see any white people at all are rather emboldened by their lack of historic interaction and experience, and tend to push the envelope, with this now infamous ferenj craze. It is less common in the cities, as white people have become more common place there, but in the countryside it can be quite the obstacle, as Ethiopian youth express their fierce independent spirit. Essentially the ferenj craze is Ethiopians telling white people to fuck off, and remember that Ethiopia has always been and will always be free..