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My life, my Ethiopia : a diary of history and love / Mary Tadesse.
Van Pelt Library DT387.954.T334 A3 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tadesse, Mary, 1932- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tadesse, Mary, 1932-.
- Tadesse, Mary.
- Women--Ethiopia--Biography.
- Women.
- International officials and employees.
- Ethiopia--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Ethiopia.
- International officials and employees--Biography.
- Tadesse, Mary, 1932---Family.
- Ethiopian American women--Biography.
- Ethiopian American women.
- Employees.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Mary Tadesse was one of the highest-ranking women to serve in the government of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Growing up in the 1930s and '40s in a small but influential Catholic family, her idyllic and privileged world unraveled as tumultuous political events, including the Italian Occupation and later the Marxist revolution, tore her family apart. One of a few girls sent abroad to study, first to Egypt and later postwar England, she was among the first generation of Western-educated Ethiopians to join the civil service to help rebuild and develop their war-ravaged country. Through diary entries we witness Mary's experiences and inner struggles, and learn how a woman, through fierce determination and faith, transcends traditional bounds of her gender. Eventually she is compelled to leave her country and embrace the life of an exile"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781569027240
- 1569027242
- 9781569027257
- 1569027250
- OCLC:
- 1240262552
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