Scholars on Haddis Alemayehu

Here are excerpts from two books where noted foreign scholars wrote what they made of  the great Ethiopian novelist and statesman, Haddis Alemayehu.  Christopher Clapham A Gojami, educated in the United States before the war. He was imprisoned by the Italians during the Occupation and since 1941 has served largely in foreign affairs. He has a reputation as an honest and painstaking administrator, and has recently written a best-selling semi-political novel. Haile-Selasssie’s Governemnt(Longma

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