Jan 22, 2005 — Michela Wrong’s first book, which came out in 2000, took the reader on an absurd journey through the Congo under General Mobutu Sese Seko. As sad as it was hilarious, “In the Footsteps ...

Introduction / Samantha Kelly -- Before the Solomonids: crisis, Renaissance and the emergence of the Zagwe dynasty (seventh-thirteenth centuries) / Marie-Laure Derat -- Territorial expansion and ...

Eritrea sits on the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa, and landlocked Ethiopia is just to the south. A 1998-2000 war killed at least 70,000, and tensions have persisted — a closed border, no flights ...