Communities in Transition

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