Jan 22, 2005 — Michela Wrong’s first book, which came out in 2000, took the reader on an absurd journey through the Congo under General Mobutu Sese Seko. As sad as it was hilarious, “In the Footsteps ...

Eritrea sits on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, and landlocked Ethiopia is just to the south. A 1998-2000 war killed at least 70,000, and tensions have persisted — a closed border, no flights ...

Introduction / Samantha Kelly -- Before the Solomonids: crisis, Renaissance and the emergence of the Zagwe dynasty (seventh-thirteenth centuries) / Marie-Laure Derat -- Territorial expansion and ...

In the volatile geopolitical landscape of the Horn of Africa, history is rarely just a record of the past; it is a weapon wielded to justify current political ...