Comments on: Not a Dumb American: Ethiopia Edition

By: Katie @ Doing Dewey

Katie @ Doing Dewey — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:28:00 +0000

What Naomi said! This sounds awesome. I’m currently not doing a great job on intentionally reading things for challenges I set myself though, so I don’t think I’m likely to hop in just now. Hopefully eventually, but until then, I’ll enjoy learning from your posts.

I love when info from multiple books I”ve read connects. I feel like I learn much better when that happens!

By: Naomi

Naomi — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:40:00 +0000

I *am* totally enthralled! With both your project and this post. It makes me want to join in (except that I don’t have time)! I learned some stuff, reading this, and had some knowledge connections of my own. I really don’t know enough about world history. The contemporary world either, come to think of it.
Question: Are all your African project books non-fiction? A novel I read called Sweetness in the Belly (Camilla Gibb) is partly set in Ethiopia around 1974-ish. And it was good.

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 17:25:00 +0000

I do love this project of yours, it’s a history lesson in a blog. I feel like I should do something similar.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:17:00 +0000

In reply to Heather. So, for this project, the game is to read one good history of every country in Africa. Nonfiction only. However! I read as much African fiction as I can get my hands on -- it's just not part of this Official Africa Reading Project. It's unrelated. :p

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:16:00 +0000

In reply to teresareads. Oh, what did you learn about his unbelovedness? I'd like to know more! Like I said, this book is great but it zips through so many years in such a short span of pages that I feel like there's still so much I don't know.

By: Jenny @ Reading the End

Jenny @ Reading the End — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:16:00 +0000

In reply to TJ @ MyBookStrings. I discovered there's a new edition of THIS book that goes through I believe the early 1990s! But that still doesn't get us up to the present day, so I'm hoping to find a book that deals with the full modern Ethiopia/Eritrea history.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 02:36:00 +0000

I like this project – do you read fiction and non-fiction? I feel like I can get on board with this thing. I mostly read European stuff, which I get great enjoyment from, but I do want to spread my wings a bit more.

By: teresareads

teresareads — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:28:00 +0000

I read a little bit (like Wikepedia and a few articles) about Haile Selassie last year when I was reading Marlon James’s Brief History of Seven Killings and learning about Bob Marley and Rastafarianism. I had picked up on the fact that he’s not universally loved, but I had missed (or maybe forgotten?) the connection about his name. So thanks for that! There’s so much stuff I don’t know about, especially in Africa.

By: TJ @ MyBookStrings

TJ @ MyBookStrings — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:43:00 +0000

I have totally heard of the Mahdist Uprising (NOT!). And please, read a second book about Ethiopia really quickly, because I need to know what happened in and after 1974. Or maybe *I* should read a book about Ethiopia…

By: Faye Griffins

Faye Griffins — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:22:00 +0000

In reply to Jenny @ Reading the End. YES! I took AP European History in high school and we learned a lot about colonialism but only from the European perspective. There should have been an AP African history class as well, which I don't think even exists?!? Looking at the AP course list on wikipedia the only history classes are European, World, and US; everything else is under Language and Culture. So I guess if your not Europe or the US you're part of the World? Bad excuses are bad AP, get it together!