Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1991

First published in 1997. Ethiopia the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent has a long unique and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh the earliest known ancestor of the human race to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian but also and perhaps more importantly as a sincere and sensitive observer who lived through the later historical events which he describes and indeed played a notable role in several of them.