Reading Ethiopia (Books)
Suggested reading on Ethiopia. Feel free to send me your additions and I'll add them to the list.
In chronological order:
The Ethiopia Books of Travels (1904, translated in 2021) Pasha
Ex-Italian Somaliland (1951) S Pankhurst
Ethiopia: A Cultural History (1955) S Pankhurst
Indo-Ethiopian Relations for Centuries (1961) Muthanna
The Blue Nile (1962) Moorehead
Wichale XVII: The Attempt to Establish a Protectorate Over Ethiopia (1964) Rubenson
Wax & Gold (1965) Levine
Land Tenure in Chore (Shoa) (1965) Mann
Islam in Ethiopia (1965) Trimingham
State and Land in Ethiopian History (1966) R Pankhurst
Land Tenure in Eritrea (1966) Zekarias
Tewodros of Ethiopia (1967) Rubenson
History of the Ethiopian Army (1967) Pankhurst
Economic History of Ethiopia (1968) R Pankhurst
Anatomy of a Traditional Polity (1974) Markakis
Ethiopia: Political Contradictions in Agricultural Development (1974) Stahl
Ethiopian Philosophy Vol 1 (1974) Sumner
The Italo-Ethiopian War (1975) Ministry of Information
Ethiopian Philosophy Vol 2 (1976) Sumner
Somalia - The Problem Child of Africa? (1977) Wolde Mariam
Ethiopian Philosophy Vol 3 (1978) Sumner
Ethiopian Philosophy Vol 4 (1981) Sumner
Ethiopian Philosophy Vol. 5 (1982) Sumner
A Social History of Land Reform in Ethiopia (1983) Pausewang
Victorious Struggle Against Fascism (1985) Ministry of Information
Classical Ethiopian Philosophy (1985) Sumner
The History of Famines and Epidemics in Ethiopia Prior to the Twentieth Century (1985) R Pankhurst
Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia (1985) Rahmato
The Challenges of Drought (1985) RRC
From Poverty to Famine (1987) McCann
Surrender or Starve (1988) Kaplan
Ethiopia Engraved, 1681-1900 (1988) Pankhurst and Ingrams
Red Tears (1989) Dawit Wolde Giorgis
People of the Plow (1990) McCann
A Social History of Ethiopia (1990) R. Pankhurst
Options for Rural Development (1990) Pausewang, Cheru, Brune and Chole
Kasa and Kasa [Tewodros II and Yohannes IV] (1990) Taddese Beyene, R Pankhurst, Shiferaw Bekele
The Survival of Ethiopian Independence (1991) Rubenson
Evil Days (1991) de Waal
A History of Modern Ethiopia (1991) Bahru Zewde
Peasant Households and their Resource Base (1993) Aspen
Imagining Ethiopia (1993) Sorenson
From Bullets to the Ballot Box (1994) Kinfe Abraham
Land Tenure and Land Policy in Ethiopia After the Derg (1994) Dessalegn Rahmato
Economy at the Cross Roads (1995) Getachew Diriba
State & Economy of the Early 20th Century Ethiopia (1995) Gabrahiwot Baykadagn
Ethiopia: Power and Protest (1996) Gebru Tareke
Ethiopia Photographed, 1867-1935 (1996) Pankhurst and Gerard
The Ethiopian Borderlands (1997) R. Pankhurst
Marxist Modern (1999) Donham
Survival and Moderation (1999) Messay Kebede
The Ethiopians (2001) R. Pankhurst
The Challenge of Democracy from Below (2002) Bahru and Pausewang
Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (2002) Bahru Zewde
Turning Conflicts to Cooperation (2003) Madhane Tadesse
Sweetness in the Belly (2005) Gibb (fiction)
Zara Yacob: Rationality of the Human Heart (2005) Kiros
Development Interventions in Wollaita (2007) Rahmato
Society, State, and History (2008) Bahru Zewde
The Peasant and the State (2008) Rahmato
Famine and Foreigners (2010) Gill
Minutes of an Ethiopian Century (2010) Taffara Deguefe
Education, Politics and Social Change in Ethiopia (2010) Milkias and Kebede
Philosophical Essays (2011) Teodros Kiros
Hope is Cut (2011) Mains
The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia (2011) Aalen
Readings on the Ethiopian Economy (2011) Alemayehu Geda
Localising Salafism (2011) Ostebo
Ethiopian Discourse (2011) Teodros Kiros
Ethiopia: The Last Two Frontiers (2011) Markakis
Ethiopia: From Autocracy to Revolutionary Democracy, 1960s-2011 (2011) Gudina
Enlightened Aid – U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (2012) McVety
Social Hierarchy of Dawuro (2012) Dubale
Food Security, Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia (2013) Rahmato and A. Pankhurst
The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia (2014) McCann
Emperor Haile Selassie (2014) Bereket
Reflections on Development in Ethiopia (2014) Rahmato and Ayenew
The Massacre of Debre Libanos (2014) Campbell
The Quest for Socialist Utopia (2014) Bahru
The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation (2014) Abebe
Ethiopian Labour Migration to the Gulf and South Africa (2015) Asnake Kefale and Zerihun Mohammed
The Plot to Kill Graziani (2015) Campbell
A Decade of Ethiopia (2017) Abbink
The Khat Conundrum in Ethiopia (2017) Yeraswork
Native Colonialism (2017) Yirga
The Lives of Community Health Workers (2017) Maes
The Addis Ababa Massacre (2017) Campbell
The Wife's Tale (2018) Aida Edemariam
Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia (2018) Atakilte
Land, Landlessness and Poverty in Ethiopia (2018) Rahmato
Foreign Direct Investment in Large-Scale Agriculture in Africa (2019) Persson
Land Tenure Security (2019) Ege
Rural Ethiopia in Transition (2019) A Pankhurst and Dom
Under Construction (2019) Mains
Ethiopia: Social and Political Issues (2019) Cochrane (Ed)
Ethiopia in Theory (2019) Elleni Zeleke
The Act of Living (2019) Di Nunzio
Oxford Handbook on the Ethiopian Economy (2019) Fantu, Cramer, Arkebe
Ethiopia in the Wake of Political Reform (2020) Desta, Dori, Mihrertu
Land to the Tiller (2020) Oosthuizen
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia (2020) Ostebo
Love and Liberation (2021) Carruth
Ethiopia & Food Security (2021) Cochrane
Village Gone Viral (2021) Ostebo
Qine Hermeneutics and Ethiopian Critical Theory (2021) Maimire Mennasemay
Citizens, Civil Society and Activism under the EPRDF Regime in Ethiopia (2023) Pellerin and Cochrane
