peace
Ethiopia–cont.
talks with Eritrea
peace treaty with Somalia
and postwar Eritrea
postwar future of
relations with Eritrea
relations with Israel
relations with Soviets
relations with US
TPLF government
UN Commission in
in World War II
Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Army
atrocities in Eritrea
attempted coups
in Eritrean war
demoralisation
Derg officers
medievalism
modernization and expansion
Soviet advisers
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)
Falashas
Fascism
Ford, Gerald
Four Powers Commission
France
colonies
Freeman, Peter
Frusci, Gen. Luigi
Gander Dower, Kenneth
Garcia Bauer, Carlos
Gebreyohannes, see Tesfamariam Germany
Ghinda
Gonder
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gromyko, Andrei
Group of
Gura
Hagos, Mesfin
Haile Selassie, Emperor
absolutism
annexation of Eritrea
coup and assassination attempts
death
exile
ethnic origins
and Federation
and OAU
in old age
personality and appearance
and postwar Eritrea
as reactionary
relations with Soviet
Union
relations with US
tomb
white advisers
Hamasien plateau
Hitler, Adolf
Horn of Africa
British policy
Cold War in
Italy and
Soviet military aid
Howe, Robert
Imperial Federal Council
Indelicato, Tom
Independence Bloc
International Ethiopian Council
Isaias Afwerki, see Afwerki
Islam
Israel
Italy: Abyssinian war (1896)
army
colonies
Fascism
inquiry into Eritrean atrocities
invades Ethiopia
invades
Libya
Italian Eritrea
Italian Ethiopia
and postwar Eritrea
racial laws
Risorgimento
Treaty of
Peace (1946)
Kagnew Station
EPLF move into
function of
guerrilla actions against
personnel
run-down and closure
Kamchiwa
Kassala
Kaunda, Kenneth
Kebra Negast
Kenyatta, Jomo
Keren
battle of
Kerr, Colin
Kissinger, Henry
Korean War
League of Nations
Leopold, King of the Belgians
Libya
Live Aid
Livraghi, Dario
Longrigg, Brig. Stephen
Lorenzini, Gen. Orlando
Lumumba, Patrice
McKay, Lawrence D ‘Spook’
manqa episode 385–6, 420n
Martini, Ferdinando
Il Diario Eritreo
and Eritrean railway
governor of Eritrea
Nell’Affrica Italiana
racism
vice-chairman of royal inquiry
Massawa
asset-stripping
atrocities in
as Italian capital
in liberation war
modernization of
port
reconstruction
World War II
Matienzo, Eduardo Anze
Mbeki, Moeletsi
Mekelle
Meles Zenawi, see Zenawi Menelik I, Emperor of Ethiopia
Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia
treaty with Italy
Mengistu Haile Mariam: agricultural reform
and armed forces
character
coup attempt against
as Derg officer
and Eritrean war
ethnic origins
flees Ethiopia
personality cult
Mengistu Haile Mariam–cont.
purges
relations with Israel
relations with Soviet
Union
relations with US
socialism
treatment of Emperor’s remains
Messai, Andargachew
Metras, Mike
Mobutu, Sese Seko
Moslem League
Munzinger, Werner
Mussolini, Benito
Nakfa
National Security Agency (US)
New Times and Ethiopia News
Nixon, Richard
Nkrumah, Kwame
Ogaden
Organisation of African Unity
Orota
Palestine
Pankhurst, Christabel
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Pankhurst, Richard
Pankhurst, Sylvia xi
People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ)
Platt, Lt-Gen. Sir William
Provisional Military Administrative Council, see Derg
Qvale, Erling
Ras Tafari, see Haile Selassie Reagan, Ronald
Red Terror
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Rora mountains
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Rwanda
Sabaeans
Sahel
Sanchil, Mount
Sapeto, Giuseppe
Schmidt, Petrus
Selassie, Dr Bereket 123, 381, 385,
Seyoum, Melles
Shamir, Yitzhak
Sheba, Queen of
Sherifo, Mahmoud
Shevardnadze, Eduard
Shubin, Vladimir
Sinitsyn, Sergei
Sokurov, Major Yevgeny
Solomon, King
Solomon, Petros
Somalia
Greater Somalia
Italian
Ogaden
war
relations with superpowers
threat to Ethiopia
Somaliland
Soviet Union
diplomatic overtures to EPLF
economic decline
military advisers
military aid
relations with Ethiopia
and Somalia
urges political settlement in
Eritrea
Spencer, John
and Federation
on US–Ethiopian relations
Stafford, Frank
Stalin, Joseph 320
Stanley, Henry
Strand, Dave
Sudan
Suez Canal
Tariku Ayne, Gen
Tekle, Abraham
Tesfagiorgis, Paulos
Tesfai, Alemseged
Tesfamariam, Gebreyohannes
Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia
Thesiger, Wilfred
Tigray
Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)
in government
relations with EPLF
Uccialli, Treaty of
Umberto, King of Italy
Unionist Party
United Nations
Afwerki addresses
Commission for
Eritrea
diplomatic overtures to EPLF
and Federation
General
Assembly
peacekeepers
rejects partition of Eritrea
Security Council
Tribunal in Eritrea
trusteeships
United States
Army
Cold War
Eritrean exiles in
and Eritrea’s future
Lend-Lease Act
military aid
relations with Ethiopia
relations with Eritrea
relations with Somalia
spy stations
War against Terror
Varennikov, Gen. Valentin I
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy
Vietnam War
Wauchope, Keith
Waugh, Evelyn
Wavell, Gen. Archibald
Welo
Winchester, Patrick
Wolde Michael, Asfaha
Woldemariam, Woldeab
Workers’ Party of Ethiopia
World War I
World War II
Yekuno Amlak, Emperor
Yemen
Yohannes IV, Emperor of Ethiopia
Zagwe dynasty
Zasadil, George ‘Zazz’
Zenawi, Meles
and Badme war
Zula
About the Author
MICHELA WRONG spent six years covering the African continent for Reuters, the BBC, and the Financial Times. Her first book, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, won a PEN award for nonfiction. She lives in London and travels regularly to Africa.
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I Didn’t Do It for You
“A brilliant exploration of colonialism, fascism, liberation, and the cruelties of a superpower-driven planet…. If you want to understand the world as it exists today, in its fullness and in all its complexity…I Didn’t Do It for You provides the best starting point.”
—The Progressive
“Engaging history…. A vivid story of a nation repeatedly trampledby foreign powers until it won its independence.”
—New York Times Book Review
“A highly readable, well-researched depiction of the region’s serial exploitation by a parade of foreign predators…. Wrong excels as astoryteller, providing evocative descriptions of Eritrea’s dramatic topography and gripping dollops of military history…. Fascinating personal portraits…. Enthralling insights into the liberation struggle…. A rare and convincing review of the policies and motives of Eritrea’s colonial masters.”
—Washington Post Book World
“A gripping political thriller.”
—Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane
“With rich prose and the passion she brings to the subject of the nation’s independence…Wrong provides a very readable journalistic narrative on Eritrea.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Eloquent and impassioned…. [A] splendid account of modern Eritrean history…. Scrupulous and honest.”
—New York Times
“Wrong is genuinely impressed with Eritrea as a nation composed of honest, do-it-yourself individuals who deserve to thrive. The book, while clear-eyed about the imperfections of Eritreans, is a valentine to a nation abused again and again by outsiders.”
—Houston Chronicle
“An engaging read…. Devastating detail…. [Wrong] has a keen appreciation for the recurring irony of Africa: that the well-intentioned so often do the most harm.”
—The Nation
“An impressive document encompassing years of in-depth research and uncovering hundreds of buried records.”
—Time Out
“[A] gripping story…. The author’s extraordinary grasp of the post-colonial psyche and tormented national identity of this country makes it fascinating.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Every bit as devastating as her In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz. The scope of her research is astonishing…. Wrong’s fiery prose boils the blood and burns infamy into the memory.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Vivid, penetrating, wonderfully detailed. Michela Wrong has written the biography of a nation and more—she has excavated the very heart and soul of the Eritrean people and their country.”
—Aminatta Forna, author of The Devil That Danced on the Water
“I found it engrossing, vividly written in the style of the best thrillers, while portraying real-life dramas and characters larger than life. It brought to life all the cruelties and distortions of the Cold War in Africa, as seen from a helpless victim country, with its stories of grotesque interventions by Americans and Russians and the excesses of the African leaders. But it’s also thoroughly well-informed, and I’ve read nothing that’s told me as much about either Eritrea or Ethiopia. It should become the standard work on the region.”
—Anthony Sampson, author of Mandela: The Authorized Biography
Also by Michela Wrong
In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz:
Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobuto’s Congo
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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