History lessons via EAL
A postscript : Yager lij of Redeem Ethiopia was kind enough to apprise me of an amazing website dedicated to Negadras Tessema Eshete and his son Ato Yidnekachew. Please check the site for photographs, poetry, and documents mentioned in the posting below, and much more--including the first Ethiopian 78rpm recording made by Tessema Esheta himself. Thanks again YL. ------------------------------------------------ A recent plea to my pops to send me books on Ethiopian history resulted in a package he was kind enough to dispatch via an EAL flight. It included five books, three of which I have been able to read. They shed significant light on several periods in Ethiopian history and I thought to share them with Ethiopian history aficionados. Semena Worqu Tessema Eshete (Tessema Eshete) Chronicling Negadras Tessema Eshete’s literary work, this book was published posthumously in 1992 by Ato Tadele Yidnekachew, the Negadras's grandson. Negadras Tessema Eshete’s long career in...