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Richard Pankhurst

Richard Pankhurst has lived in Ethiopia for over thirty years. He is professor at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa. His most recent books include A History of Ethiopian Towns from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (1982), A social History of Ethiopia (1990), and History of the Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History (1997).

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An Ethiopian hero: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936 - 2006)

Richard Pankhurst charts the life and career of one of African literature’s most distinguished figures, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin.

(This article was first published 13 March 2006)