Literature and the Arts

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Art


Yegizaw Michael. Apowerful synthesis of traditional East African art and modern international style.

Eritrea http:www.yeggystydio.com
Somali http://www.osmanart.homestead.com
Ethiopian http://myethiopia.info/art.asp
An Eritrean Cultural Evening at the Seattle Art Museum http://www.yeggystudio.com/sam.htm

Music

Eritrean http://www.eritros.org/
Somali http://www.hiiraan.com/beerlula.htm
Oromo http://www.oromiamusic.com
Afro-Pop Worldwide http://www.afropop.org/

Literature and Books
You can click on many of the titles for links to reviews or summaries

Eritrea  
Abeba Tesfagiorgis A Painful Season and A Stubborn Hope: The Odyssey of an Eritrean Woman
Dan Connell Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution
Dan Connell Rethinking Revolution: New Strategies for Democracy and Social Justice: The Experience of Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine & Nicaragua
Harold Courlander The Fire on the Mountain and Other Stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea  (children's book)
Tekeste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrea-Ethiopia War
Ararat Iyob Blankets of Sand: Poems of War and Exile
Roy Pateman Even the Stones are Burning
Amrit Wilson The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution
Belainesh Araya Counseling in an Eritrean Context
David Pool From Guerrillas to Government
Tom Killion Historical Dictionary of Eritrea
Judy Mayotte Disposable People
Kjetil Tronvoll Mai Weini, a Highland Village in Eritrea: A Study of the People, Their Homeland, and Land Tenure During the Times of Turbulence
Carlo Conti Rossini Principles of the Customary Laws of Eritrea
Alberto Pollero The Native Peoples of Eritrea
Alemseged Abbay Identity Jilted or Re-Imaging Identity?: The Divergent Paths of the Eritrean and Tigrayan Nationalist Struggles
Leslie Gottesman To Fight and Learn: The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's Independence War
Sudan  
Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North
Jamal Mahjoub Wings of Dust
Somalia  
Nuruddin Farah Maps
Nuruddin Farah Sweet and Sour Milk (Part I of Trilogy: Variations on a theme of African dictatorship)
John William Johnson “Heelloy”: Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somali
Ethiopia  
Bereket Habteselassie Riding the Whirlwind
Nega Mezlekia Notes from the Hyena’s Belly

 
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