
A Gallop in Ethiopia: Wax, Gold & the Abyssinian Pony (Yves-Marie Stranger)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Ethiopia Is a Complex Set of Events, Not Neatly Divisible Groupings
In the year since stranger wrote a gallop in ethiopia, or rather beginning just as he finished it, a fresh civil war has rivenEthiopia. In some despite the many apparent advantages of its civilization relative to the west, it seems very unlikely ethiopia will return to real prominence on the world's stage. No nation torn by ethnic conflict is going to raise up a new empire. The only peoples that have ever done so are homogeneous, at least at their beginnings. You can't build an empire from a multi ethnic basis. You need ethnic and cultural, near total homogeneity. I wish the ethiopians the best. But i sadly conclude that they will
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