ETHIOPIA, modern nation - ancient roots

609pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Iwalewabooks, Johannesburg, Lagos & Frankfurt & The African Institute, Sharjah, 2024

ISBN: 9783947902323

A collection of essays on Ethiopia’s unique place in African and global history, offering new insights into its cultural and political identity. Structured into five parts, it covers themes of exceptionalism, Black diasporic imagination, historical shifts, migration and exile, and Ethiopia’s literary, visual, and performing arts.

Dagmawi Woubshet is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  Before joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 Woubshet taught at Cornell University where he was named one of “The 10 Best Professors at Cornell".

Elizabeth W. Giorgis is Chair, Department of Humanities and Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute (GSU), Sharjah. She is a recipient of several fellowships including the Ali Mazrui Senior Fellowship for Global African Studies at The Africa Institute, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Brown University, a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Resident Fellows Program in Italy. She is the author of Modernist Art in Ethiopia (2019).

Surafel Wondimu Abebe is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Theory, The Africa Institute (GSU), Sharjah.