#alemayehu — Public Fediverse posts

Enjoying Nadia Nurhussein's Black Land https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190969/black-land and its focus on Alemayehu. "He is a romantic and spectacular figure, displaced in unending exile, steeped in nostalgia and obsolescence, but also an example of successful assimilation of the exotic." @PrincetonUPress #ethiopia #alemayehu #alamayu #loot #plunder #maqdala #magdala #empire #britishempire

Loot of the day: Lieutenant Borrett took "two Abyssinian swords...a ring I cut off a dead enemy, part of a native bible and a bullet that fell at my feet during the fight" during the British "expedition" to Ethiopia in 1868. Here's the ring in Lancaster http://kingsownmuseum.com/mus03campaigns1868.htm #ethiopia #loot #plunder #empire #britishempire #repatriation #abyssinia #maqdala #magdala #africa #alamayu #alemayehu #lancaster #army #britisharmy #military