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).

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

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ethiopia's greatest living playwright, and acclaimed Poet Laureate, died in Manhattan on 25 February. He was 69, and had for several years been prevented from returning

By Richard Pankhurst

/ 10 Sep 2007