Paulos milkias biography of mahatma

Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia
By Paulos Milkias
This is a book on Ethiopia by an Ethiopian scholar.

It is an inside look, a probing mirror-image analysis by one of the members of the Ethiopian intelligentsia of the postwar years and about their role in the revolutionary upheavals during the past decades. Most of the data quoted in this book are based on documents of Ethiopian, British, United States’, World Bank, and United Nations’ origin.

Large parts of these documents were kept on a top secret list for a long time, and others are still restricted. Some crucial points are elucidated by questionnaires gathered from for- mer high-level consultants of the Haile Selassie regime and more than 50 West- ern expatriates, the author’s reminiscences of personal audiences with Emperor Haile Selassie, as well as interviews of some key political personalities.

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