Do you know what the official language of Ethiopia is? If you didn’t already know, it is a language called Amharic. This language is also known as Amhara, Abyssinian, Amarinya and Amarigna, according ...
CARLO CONTI-ROSSINI, the greatest living authority on Ethiopian culture and history, has described Ethiopia as a "museum of peoples." For thousands of years diverse peoples have beaten against the ...
The essay addresses the origins of the literary expressions of Ethiopia: its oral literature, classical literature, and Amharic literature proper. The oral literature of Ethiopia, including folk tales ...