You reach Ankober from Debre Birhan across a high, bare plateau. Then the ground ends. The escarpment drops away thousands of feet towards the Afar lowlands, and on […]
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The Line That Held: Negasi Krestos to Sahle Selassie and the Shewan State
Most royal houses are remembered for their battles. The Shewan house deserves to be remembered for something harder: it kept a state running, generation after generation, in a […]
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What Shewa Actually Was: The Reach of a Civilization Before It Was Reduced
Ask an older Shewan where Shewa is and you will rarely get a line on a map. You will get a list of places. Menz and Tegulet in […]