Explores the prose narratives of the Borana branch of the Oromo in Ethiopia. The Borana possess an immensely powerful, prolific, and systematic oral tradition, and this enquiry provides the reader with information on this tradition, and on the social context in which the folklore remains highly active today. Three Borana prose genres are defined and described, each according to its inherent features and with reference to the settings in which narration occurs. Issues concerning the identity of the performer, occasion, style of performances and interaction between narrator and audience are discussed. 204pp, UK. HAAN ASSOCIATES.

Again available. Stories of acute sardonic humour which tell of horrors in Ethiopia. Written after the Revolution, introduced by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. x, 192pp, UK. HARCOURT EDUCATION NETQUOTEVAR:HEINEMANN, 0435905902

1993 Paperback

Now available in paperback. Set in 17th century Abyssinia, this is the epic story of a forbidden love between a slave and the daughter of his feudal lord. The novel is steeped in African folklore and teeming with class, religious and ethnic struggles. Map, viii, 238pp, UK. PHOENIX, 0753816865

A collection of nine stories painting a vivid picture of the many different lives that intertwine along the Horn of Africa. Map, xi, 102pp, UK. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO.

A collection of short stories by the famed Ethiopian writer, retold in English by Wendy Kindred. 47pp, ETHIOPIA. AFRICAN SUN PUBLISHING, 1883701031

Traces and analyses the development of Ethiopian literatures from Ge'ez to the first Amharic novel. RED SEA PRESS, 0932415474

New in paperback. In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible exile. As Ethiopian refugees gradually fill the flats of the housing estate where she lives, Lilly tentatively begins to share with them her longing for the home she herself once had in Africa, and her heartbreaking search for her missing lover. Back in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia, the young Lilly, born in the 1950s to British parents, now orphaned and full of religious conviction, finds herself living in the city of Harare. She is drawn to the idealistic young doctor, Aziz, himself an outsider in the community. But then convulsions of a new revolutionary order separate them, sending Lilly to an England, she has never seen, while Aziz disappears. Camilla Gibb's evocation of the distinctive world of the ancient city and of its unique religion and culture is vivid and rich. She draws us just as completely into the mind of the older Lilly, emotionally paralysed by her loss. 408pp, UK. VINTAGE.

Recently reissued. Texts of Amharic verses collected are presented alongside with English translations, so as to make the material accessible to researchers; analysis and interpretation of the texts complete the work. The oral poetry exam-ined is characterised as a literature of protest. In contrast to existing studies on African oral literature which has not always taken peasant consciousness and knowledge into consideration, the commentary focuses on the developmental and functional aspects of folktales, poetry and oral literature. 236 pp, ETHIOPIA. ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY PRESS.