PDF⋙ Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood by Nega Mezlekia PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Winner of the Governor General's Award A Library Journal Best Book of 2001 Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s and '80s, an era of civil war, widespread famine, and mass execution. "We children lived like the donkey," Mezlekia remembers, "careful not to wander off the beaten trail and end up in the hyena's belly." His memoir sheds light not only on the violence and disorder that beset his native country, but on the rich spiritual and cultural life of Ethiopia itself. Throughout, he portrays the careful divisions in dress, language, and culture between the Muslims and Christians of the Ethiopian landscape. Mezlekia also explores the struggle between western European in...