Historical Resources on Africa, Ethiopia, Its Diaspora & the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

Today's Ethiopia is Ethiopia of the Holy Scriptures, History and Antiquity - Resolution of the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (September 1997)

The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians - Fikre Tolossa

Book Review: The Hidden and Untold History of the Jewish People and Ethiopians - De Birhan Media (August 2012)

The Beta Israel: Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century - Steven B. Kaplan

The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to I920 - James Quirin

We, the Black Jews - Yosef A. A. ben Jochannan

Origin of the Yoruba and 'The Lost Tribes of Israel' - Dierk Lange

From Babylon to Timbuktu - Rudolph R. Windsor

The Contribution of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church to the Ethiopian Civilization - Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia - Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia II - Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Christianity in Ethiopia III - Kesis Kefyalew Merahi

Early Christianity in Contexts - ed. William Tabbernee

Patriotism and Piety in Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics on Saint Gregory - trans. Abraham Terian

The Orthodox Church of Ethiopia: A History - John Binns

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Orthodox Church - Ephraim Isaac

The Ethiopian Tewahedo Church: An Integrally African Church - Archbishop Yesehaq

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church: Faith, Order of Worship and Ecumenical Relations (citation)

The Establishment of the Ethiopian Church

The Introduction of Christianity

The Expansion & Consolidation of Christianity C. 350 - 650 A.D.

A Period of Conflict C. 700 - 1200 A.D.

Revival of the Church C. 1200 - 1526 A.D.

Persecution & Religious Controversies

The Ethiopian Church History: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church vs. the Roman Catholic Church - Kesis Endale Abebe

The Period of Reorganization

The Hierarchy

Worship in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Role of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Literature & Art

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church School System

Additional Resources

Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity and its Pre-Rabbinic Judaic Roots – Tedla Melaku (academia.edu)

Is the Church of Ethiopia a Judiac Church? - Kirsten Stoffregen Pedersen

The Archaeology of Christianity in Africa - Niall Finneran

The Archaeology of Ethiopia - Niall Finneran

Alexandria: A City and Myth - Niall Finneran

A Tale of Five Cities: A History of the Five Patriarchal Cities of the Early Church - Jay E. Thompson

Mountain Constantines: The Christianization of Aksum and Iberia - Christopher Haas

Lalibela and Yimrehane Kirstos: The Living Witness of Zagwe Dynasty - Deacon Mengistu Gobezie

The History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Part 1) - Luke Melaku

The History of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Part 2 & 3) - Luke Melaku

Chapter 15: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Christine Chaillot, in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions - ed. Elias Kifon Bongmba

Beyond Byzantium: The Non-Chalcedonian Churches - Niall Finneran, in A Companion to Byzantium - ed. Liz James

The Red Sea during the 'Long' Late Antiquity, AD 500-1000 - Timothy Power (academia.edu)

The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate, AD 500-1000 - Timothy Power

Ethiopia and the Red Sea - Mordechai Abir

Website dedicated to Dr. Sergew Hable Selassie, author of Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270

Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 - Sergew Hable Selassie

Book Review of Merse'a Hazen Wolde Qirqos' Yahayagnaw Kifil Zemen Mebacha: Yezemen Tarik Tizitaye Kayhutena Kesemhaut, 1896-1922 - Ayele Bekerie

Africans in Arabia Felix: Aksumite Relations with Himyar in the Sixth Century C.E., PhD Thesis (2011) - George Hatke (abstract)

Ethiopia: Judaism, Altars and Saints - Stuart Munro Hay

The Process of Caste Formation in Ethiopia: A Study of the Beta Israel (Felasha), 1270-1868 - James Quirin

Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia - Paul B. Henze

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian - ed. Alessandro Bausi

Political Theory and Ideology in the Kebra Nagast: Old Testament Judaism, Roman-Byzantine Politics and Ethiopian Orthodoxy - Benjamin Hendrickx (abstract)

The Ascent of Christian Law: Patristic and Byzantine Formulations of a New Civilization - John Anthony McGuckin

The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire - J. M. Hussey, Andrew Louth

Byzantium and the Arabs series - Irfan Shahid

The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740 - John Haldon

Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World - Youval Rotman and Jane Marie Todd

Athanasius of Alexandria and 'The Kingdom of the Desert' in his Works - Eirini Artemi (academia.edu)

Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Deserts - Otto F. Meinardus

Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt - ed. Gawdat Gabra

Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity - Otto F. A. Meinardus

The Scrolls of Bishop Timotheos - J. M. Plumley

The Reign of God Has Come: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam - Stephen Shoemaker (academia.edu)

Seeing Eye to Eye: Islamic Universalism in the Roman and Byzantine Worlds, 7th to 10th Centuries, PhD Thesis (2010) - Olof Heilo

The Development of the Coptic Perceptions of the Muslim Conquest of Egypt, MA Thesis (2012) - Walid Mohamed Asfour

Coptic Conversion and the Islamization of Egypt - Shaun O'Sullivan

From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt - Maged S.A. Mikhail

Coptic Christianity in Ottoman Egypt - Febe Armanios

The Perception and Presentation of the Arab Conquest in Syriac Historiography - Jan Van Ginkel (academia.edu)

Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia - Gawdat Gabra

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Vol. 1: Akhmim and Sohag - eds. Gawdat Gabra & Hany Takla

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt, Vol. 2: Nag Hammadi-Essa - eds. Gawdat Gabra & Hany Takla

The Monastic Holy Man and the Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia - Steven Kaplan

Byzantium and Ethiopian Monasticism - Vaclav Jezek

Ethiopian Monasticism - Krzysztof Piotr Blazewicz

Ethiopian Monasticism, HMML Lectures, Paper 5 - Getachew Haile (abstract)

Founded by, Dedicated to, and Fighting About the Holy Savior: Schism in Wald ba, a Microcosm of Factionalism in the Ethiopian Church - Kindeneh E. Mihretie (academia.edu)

The Christianization and the Shaping of Ethiopian Society: From the Nine Saints to the Eight Monk Delegation at the [Roman Catholic) Ecumenical Council of Florence - Mario Alexis Portella (academia.edu)

Ethiopian and Eritrean Monasticism - Mario Alexis Portella (Roman Catholic Perspective)

Central Ethiopian Monasticism, 1974-1991: The Survival of an Ancient Institution in a Changing World, PhD Thesis - Joachim Gregor Persoon (abstract)

Traditional Teaching in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Christine Chaillot

Traditional Ethiopian Church School - Alaka Imbakom Kalewold

Kings and Saints: Founders of Dynasties, Monasteries and Churches in Christian Ethiopia - Alessandro Bausi (academia.edu)

Ezanas and Caleb, the Pair of Saintly Kings - Wolfgang Hahn, Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies ed. Siegbert Uhlig

The Conversion of King Caleb and the Religious and Political Dynamics of Sixth-Century Ethiopia and Southern Arabia - Ralph Lee, in An Age of Saints? Power, Conflict and Dissent in Early Medieval Christianity - eds. Peter Sarris, Matthew Dal Santo and Phil Booth

The Chronicle of the Emperor Zara Yaqob (1434-1468) - Richard Pankhurst

Abba Estifanos (Hadege Anbesa), 1380 to 1450, Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Stephanite Movement) - Dictionary of African Christian Biography

The History of the First Estifanosite Monks - Getachew Haile

The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende - ed. Getachew Haile

The Faith of the Unctionists in the Ethiopian Church - Getachew Haile

Te-Abba Bahriy Dirsetoch Oromochin Kemimeleketu Leloch Senedoch Gara (The Works of Abba Bahriy and Other Documents) - Gatachew Haile (Amharic & English introduction)

Orthodox Faith and Political Legitimization of a 'Solomonid' Dynasty of Rulers in the Ethiopic Kebra Nagast: A Reappraisal - Pierluigi Piovanelli (academia.edu)

Pious Kings and Right-Believing Queens - Fr. James Thornton

Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea - James De Lorenzi

Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, Eurocentrism and the Decentering of Ethiopia - Messay Kebede (abstract)

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam - G. W. Bowersock

The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles - ed. Richard Pankhurst

The Royal Chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 - ed. Herbert Weld Blundell

Church and State in Ethiopia, 1270-1527 - Taddesse Tamrat

Priests & Politicians: Protestant & Catholic Missions in Orthodox Ethiopia - Donald Crummey

Gaining the Heart of Prester John: Loyola's Blueprint for Ethiopia in Three Key Documents - Matteo Salvadore

Muslim Partners, Catholic Foes: The Selective Isolation of Fasiladas's Ethiopia - Matteo Salvadore (academia.edu)

The Missionary Strategies of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1555-1632) - Leonardo Cohen

Envoys of a Human God: The Jesuit Mission to Christian Ethiopia, 1557-1632 - Andreu Martinez D'Alos-Moner

Europe and Ethiopia's Isolation: The Ethio-Jesuit Paradigm Revised (16th-17th century) - Andreu Martinez D'Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Paul and the Other: The Portuguese Debate on the Circumcision of the Europeans - Andreu Martinez D'Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Christian Ethiopia: The Temptation of an African Polity - Andreu Martinez D'Alos-Moner (academia.edu)

Sisters Debating the Jesuits: The Role of African Women in Defeating Portuguese Proto-Colonialism in Seventeenth-Century Abyssinia - Wendy Laura Belcher (academia.edu)

Selected Latin Letters of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (1609-1641) - ed. Wendy Laura Belcher (forthcoming)

Ethiopia and the Missions: Historical and Anthropological Insights - eds. Verena Boll, Stephen Kaplan, Andreu Martinez d'Alos-Moner

A Story in Stones: Portugal's Influence on Culture and Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia, 1493-1634 - John Jeremy Hespeler-Boultbee

Discourse Against Catholic Doctrine in Tegray (Ethiopia): A Nineteenth Century Text - Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Legitimation Strategies in the Encounters between Missionary and Indigenous Christianity: Examining German Hermannsburg Mission's Narratives on the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (1924-1927) - Stanislau Paulau (academia.edu)

The Chronicle of King Susenyos trans. Alemu Haile: Book Review - Sisay Sahile Beyene (academia.edu)

Monks and Monarchs: Christological Controversy of the Ethiopian Church and Its Impact on the State (1632-1878), PhD Thesis, 2011 - Kindeneh Endeg Mihretie (abstract)

The Rise and Fall of the Solomonic Dynasty - Gizachew Tiruneh

The Kebra Nagast: The Glory of the Kings

The Kebra Nagast: New Translation - ed. Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner (forthcoming)

The Fetha Nagast: The Law of the Kings

The Black Queen of Sheba: A Global History of an African Idea - Wendy Laura Belcher (forthcoming)

An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800 - Richard Pankhurst

Economic History of Ethiopia (1800-1935) - Richard Pankhurst

Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia - Donald Crummey

The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300-1700 - Mohammed Hassen

Eastern Christian Apocalyptic in the Early Muslim Period: Pseudo-Methodius and Pseudo-Athanasius (PhD Thesis) - Francisco Javier Martinez

The Legend of Sergius Bahira: Eastern Christian Apologetics and Apocalyptic in Response to Islam - Barbara Roggema

The Conquest of Abyssinia - Futuh Al-Habasa

The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia - G. W. B. Huntingford

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam - ed. Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark N. Swanson and David Thomas

Muslim Ethiopia: The Christian Legacy, Identity Politics and Islamic Reformism - Patrick Desplat

The Orthodox Church in the Arab World, 700 - 1700: An Anthology of Sources - eds. Samuel Noble and Alexander Treiger

Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831 - trans. Samuel Noble, Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko

Seeing Islam as Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam - Robert G. Hoyland

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: The Arab Period in Armnyah Seventh to Eleventh Centuries, Volume 1 - Seta Dadoyan

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World, Volume 2 - Seta Dadoyan

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World, Volume 3 - Seta Dadoyan

Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 - Fatma Muge Gocek

The Middle East - Bernard Lewis

The Multiple Identities of the Middle East - Bernard Lewis

The End of Modern History in the Middle East - Bernard Lewis

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race and Islam - Chouki El Hamel

The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402 - 1555 - Matteo Salvadore

The Goggam Chronicle - Girma Getahun

The Golden Age of the Moors - Ivan Van Sertima

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 - John Thornton

Slavery, Family amd Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic - S. D. Smith

Slavery and the British Empire - Kenneth Morgan

Abolition! The Struggle to Abolish Slavery in the British Colonies - Richard S. Reddie

The Queen's Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I and the Trafficking in Human Souls - Nick Hazlewood

An Anglican British World: The Church of England and the Expansion of the Settler Empire, c. 1790-1860 - Joseph Hardwick

A Cultural Sociology of Anglican Mission and the Indian Residential Schools in Canada - Eric Taylor Woods

Themes in African-Guyanese History - eds. Winston F. McGowan, James G. Rose, David A. Granger

Ethiopian Emperors and Slavery - Hanibal Goitam, Library of Congress

Slavery and French and Haitian Revolutionists - Anna Julia Cooper

The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays - eds. Martin L. Kilson, Robert I. Rotberg

In the Shadow of the Plantation: Caribbean History and Legacy - Alvin O. Thompson

The Fetha Nagast and its Ecclesiology - Negussie Andre Domnic (Roman Catholic Perspective)

The Survival of Ethiopian Independence - Sven Rubenson

Islam in Ethiopia - J. S. Trimingham

Beleaguered Muslim Fortresses and Ethiopian Imperial Expansion from the 13th to the 16th Century, MA Thesis (2008) - Travis J. Owens

Ethiopia - The Era of the Princes: The Challenge of Islam and the Re-unification of the Christian Empire 1769-1955 - Mordechai Abir

Servants of Allah: African-Muslims Enslaved in the Americas - Sylviane A. Diouf

Imperial Legitmacy and the Creation of Neo-Solomonic Ideology in 19th Century Ethiopia - Donald Crummey

Yohannes IV of Ethiopia: A Political Biography - Zewede Gabre-Sellassie

Re-imagining Empire: Ethiopian Political Culture under Yohannis IV (1872-89), PhD Thesis - Izabela Orlowska (academia.edu)

Ras Alula and the Scramble for Africa: A Political Biography, Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1875-1897 - Haggai Erlich

The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory against European Colonialism - eds. Paulos Milkias and Getachew Metaferia

Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society - Donald N. Levine

Early Twentieth Century Theological Controversies in Ethiopia: The Letter of the Coptic Metropolitan Petros of 1904 - Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Legacy of Bitterness: Ethiopia and Fascist Italy, 1934-91 - Alberto Sbacchi

The Massacre of Debre Libanos Ethiopia 1937 - Ian Campbell

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame - Ian Campbell

Rodolfo Graziani: A War Criminal Who Escaped Justice - Kidane Alemayehu

Rodolfo Graziani: A Fascist Hero and the Butcher of Africa - Ghelawdewos Araia

Forgotten Voices of the Italo-Abyssinian War 1935-41 - Andrew Hilton

Intervening in Abyssinia - C.L.R. James

The Fascist Invasion of Ethiopia and the Papacy - Rev. Dr. Mikre Sellassie G. Ammanuel

Church and Missions in Ethiopia During the Italian Occupation - Rev. Dr. Mikre Sellassie G. Ammanuel

Slavery and the League of Nations: Ethiopia as a Civilised Nation - Jean Allain

Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I, 1918-1967, especially Chapter XV - Culture, pp. 613 & Chapter XVI - Religion, pp. 625-643

A Glimpse of Greatness: Haile Selassie I - The Person - Abebe Ambatchew

Passion-Bearers - Orthodox Wiki

South Africa - Land of Martyrs - Abuna Yesehaq

Apartheid, 1948-1994 - Saul Dubow

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History - George M. Fredrickson

Precolonial Black Africa - Cheikh Anta Diop

A History of Pan-African Revolt - C. L. R. James

Bond Without Blood: A History of Ethiopian and New World Black Relations, 1896-1991 - Fikru Gebrekidan

Ethiopia Stretches Forth Across the Atlantic: African-American Anticolonialism during the Interwar Period - John Munro

Ethiopia is Now: J. A. Rogers and the Rhetoric of Black Anti-colonialism during the Great Depression - Aric Putnam

The Sons of Sheba's Race: African-Americans and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1941 - William R. Scott

In Recognition of the Abyssinian General - Robbie Shilliam

Intervention and Colonial Modernity: Decolonising the Italy/Ethiopia Conflict Through Psalms 68:31 - Robbie Shilliam

The Lion of Judah in the New World: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Shaping of American's Attitudes Tward Africa - Theodore Vestal

Black Experience and the Empire - eds. Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins

The Colonial Caribbean in Transition - eds. Bridget Brereton, Kevin A. Yelvington

Africa's World War - Gerard Prunier

The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia - eds. Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Katherina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja

Ethiopia: Power and Protest - Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century - Gebru Tareke

Class and Revolution in Ethiopia - John Markakis and Nega Ayele

Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia - John Young

Ethiopia: The Political Economy of Transition - Ghelawdewos Araia

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia - Asfa-Wossen Asserate

Haile Selassie's Government (1930-1974) - Christopher Clapham

The Dying Lion: Feudalism and Modernization in Ethiopia - Patrick Gilkes

Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia - Paulos Milkias

The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974 - Bahru Zewde

Addis Ababa University in the Shadow of the Derg, 1974-1991 - Randi Ronning Balsvik

The Orthodox Church and the State in the Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-84 - Haile Larebo

Christians in Marxist Ethiopia - Mikael Doulos

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 - Messay Kebede

Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution - Messay Kebede

To Kill a Generation: The Red Terror in Ethiopia - Babile Tola

From Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist Countries - ed. Paul Hollander

The Last Post-Cold War Socialist Federation: Ethnicity, Ideology and Democracy in Ethiopia - Semahagn Gashu Abebe

Revolution and Religion in Ethiopia: The Growth and Persecution of the Mekane Yesus Church, 1974-1985 - Oyvind M. Eide

Witness and Discipleship: Leadership of the Church in Multi-Ethnic Ethiopia in a Time of Revolution: The Essential Writings of Gudina Tumsa, General Secretary of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (1929-1979)

Gudina Tumsa, 1929 to 1979, Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, The Voice of an Ethiopian Prophet - Dictionary of African Christian Biography

Christianity and Ethnic Tension: Lessons from Gudina Tumsa - Nebeyou Alemu (academia.edu)

Black Ethiopia: A Glimpse into African Diplomacy, 1956-1991 - Belete Belachew Yihun

Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia: Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi - eds. Gerald Prunier and Eloi Ficquet

Ethnic Politics in Ethiopia and the Church - Yoseph Shibeshi

Ethiopia: Competing Ethnic Nationalisms and the Quest for Democracy, 1960-2000 - Merera Gudina

The Invention of Ethnic Politics - Messay Kebede

The Politics of Metanoia: Towards a Post-Nationalistic Political Theology in Ethiopia - Theodros Assefa Teklu

The Paradox of Africa's Poverty: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Practices and Local Institutions - The Case of Ethiopia - Tirfe Mammo

Arrested Development in Ethiopia: Essays on Underdevelopment, Democracy and Self-Determination - eds. Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen

Church and State in the Orthodox World: From the Byzantine 'Symphonia' and Nationalized Orthodoxy to the Need of Witnessing the Word of God in a Pluralistic Society - Pantelis Kalaitzidis (academia.edu)

Syriac Writers on Muslims and the Religious Challenge of Islam - Sidney H. Griffith

Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World - Michael Penn

When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam - Michael Penn

The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Moslems in the World of Islam - Sidney Griffith

Tolerance and Coercion in Islam: Intefaith Relations in the Muslim Tradition - Yohanan Friedmann

Arabicization and Islamization: Eastern Christianity and the Appeal of Islam, 600-1500 - ed. David Thomas

The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam - Bat Ye'or

The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude - 7th-20th Century - Bat Ye'or

The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom - Mark Durie

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam - eds. Emmanouela Grypeou, Mark N. Swanson and David Thomas

Slavery, the State and Islam - Mohammed Ennaji

Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume 1 - Islam and the Ideology of Enslavement - John Ralph Willis

Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora - Ronald Segal

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in 19th Century Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman Mediterranean - eds. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno

Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide - Vicken Cheterian

Islamism in the Horn of Africa - Terje Ostebo

Radical Islam in East Africa - Angel Rabasa

Islamic Fundamentalism in East Africa: Ethiopia in Focus - Taye Bekalu Atnafu

Islamic Fundamentalism in Ethiopia - Ephrem Eshete (Amharic)

Islamic Fundamentalism in Ethiopia - Ephrem Eshete (Book Reviews)

The Conversion from Fanatic Islam to Christianity - Nahed Mahemud Mutwali (Amharic)

Muslim Religious Leaders on Ethiopian TV (August 2012) - Tecola W. Hagos

The ISIS Factor: What Islamic Jihad Means for Ethiopia and the Rest of Africa (September 2014) - Ghelawdewos Araia

Against Wahabism? Islamic Reform, Ambivalence and Sentiments of Loss in Harar - Patrick Desplat (academia.edu)

Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S, - Saudi Connection - Meda Benjamin

Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency - Virginia Comolli

Ethiopia: Democracy, Devolution of Power & the Developmental State - Ghelawdewos Araia

Religious Freedom and the Political Order: The Ethiopian 'Secular State' and the Containment of Muslim Identity Politics - Jon Abbink

Religious Tolerance, Tensions between Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Gondar Town, North West Ethiopia - Haileyesus Muluken

Addis Ababa Public Space: An Arena for Religious Rivalry - Dr. Kindeneh Endeg

Ethiopia: Governing the Faithful, Crisis Group Africa Briefing, No. 177 (February 22, 2016) - International Crisis Group

Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery (Ethiopia) - Prof. Martin Patt

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide - Bat Ye'or

Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Ethiopia: The Messages of Religions - Haggai Erlich

The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt and the Nile - Haggai Erlich

Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan - Haggai Erlich

Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity and Politics Entwined - Haggai Erlich

Islam in Black America - Edward E. Curtis

Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority - Zareena Grewal

The Planting of the Tabot on European Soil: The Trajectory of Ethiopian Orthodox Involvement with the European Continent (abstract) - Joachim Persoon

The Centralization Process of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: An Ecclesiastical History of Ethiopia During the 20th Century - Stephane Ancel (academia.edu)

Territories, Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions and Centralization Process: The Improvement of the Ethiopian Patriarchate Authority (1972-1983) - Stephane Ancel

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the Diaspora: Expansion in the Midst of Politics, Religion and Schism - Walle Engedayehu (opinion of the author)

'Neutral' Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches (EOTCs) in the Diaspora: Is it not High Time to Take a Principled Stand? - Walle Engedayehu (opinion of the author)

Ethiopia's Foreign Relations, Then and Now! (November 21, 2013) - Fisseha Tadesse Feleke

The EOTC Patriarchate - A Cause for Division (November 2012) - Teklu Abate

The EOTC at a Crossroads (November 2012) - Teklu Abate

EOTC Synod Renewed Its Failure - Teklu Abate

Towards a Fuller Vision: My Life & the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - Brahana Selassie

Wade in the River: The Story of African Christian Faith - Fr. Paisius Altschul

An Unbroken Circle: Linking Ancient African Christianity to the African-American Experience - ed. Fr. Paisius Altschul

What Happened to the Original Christian Unity in Ethiopia? Towards the Restoriation of our Original Unity in Christ - Petros S. Berga (Roman Catholic)

The Rebirth of African Orthodoxy: Return to Foundations - Thomas C. Oden

Bibliography on Christianity in Ethiopia, African Studies Center (2003) - J. Abbink

God's Empire: Religion and Colonialism in the British World, c. 1801-1908 - Hilary M. Carey

Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America - Kenneth Morgan

Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya - Caroline Elkins

Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Atebellum South - Albert J. Raboteau

The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity and Globalization - Toyin Falola

North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes - Harvey Amani Whitfield

Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage - Marcel Trudel

The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal - Afua Cooper

Capitalism and Slavery - Eric Williams

Sugar, Slavery and Society - ed. Bernard Moitt

American Catholics and Slavery, 1789 - 1866 - Kenneth J. Zanca

African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy and Freedom - Sylvester A. Johnson

Embracing Protestantism: Black Identities in the Atlantic World - John W. Catron

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II - Douglas A. Blackmon

Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land - Graham Reynolds

Viola Desmond's Canada - Teaching Guide

Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946 - Constance Backhouse

Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community - Donald H. Clairmont and Dennis William Magill

This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in Canada and the United States - Andrew Woolford

Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow - Adele Oltman

A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America - Elinor Langer

Cultural Power, Resistance and Pluralism: Colonial Guyana, 1838-1900 - Brian Moore

Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924 - Juanita De Barros

Cross and Crown in Barbados: Caribbean Political Religion in the Late 19th Century - Kortright Davis

Jamaica: Debt and Poverty - Claremont Kirton

Dual Legacies in the Contemporary Caribbean: Continuing Aspects of British and French Dominion - ed. Paul Sutton

Never Forget: America's Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered in Arkansas - Black Main Street

Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South - W. Fitzhugh Brundage

Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 - Amy Louise Wood

Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Well's Interrogation of American Terror - Angela D. Sims

African Americans Confront Lynching: Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era - Christopher Waldrep

Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror - Angela Sims

The Promised Land: History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond - eds. Boulou Ebanda de B'beri, Nina Reid-Maroney and Handel Kashope Wright

A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986 - John S. Malloy

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America - Manning Marable

Race, War and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I - Mark Ellis

Race and Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 - Penny Von Eschen

An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival - Jamie C. Miller

Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present - Keith Breckenridge

Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972 - Kenneth O'Reilly

The Assassination of Fred Hampton - Jeffrey Haas

An Illusive Independence: Neocolonial Intervention in the Caribbean - Kevin Edmonds (academia.edu)

From Slavery to Mass Incarceration - Loic Wacquant

Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration - Devah Pager

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary - Dennis Childs

Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader - Kevin Bales

Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa - eds. Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran

Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live AID - Peter Gill

Unheard Voices: Drought, Famine and God in Ethiopian Oral Poetry - Fekade Azeze

People on the Edge in the Horn - Gaim Kibreab

Land Deals in Africa: Ethiopia - Oakland Institute

Grabbing Back: Essays Against the Global Land Grab - ed. Alexander Reid Ross

Land Grabbing: Journeys In The New Colonialism - Stefano Liberti

The Betrayal of Africa - Gerald Caplan

Two Revolutions Behind: Is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church an Obstacle or Catalyst for Social Development? - J. A. Loubser

The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000: Patterns of Migration, Survival and Adjustment - Solomon Addis Getahun

Ethiopians in the Diaspora and Their Spirituality: The Influence of the Orthodox Church on Its Faithful - Moses Haregewoyn

Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora - Atsuko Matsuoka

The Black Jacobians: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - C. L. R. James

Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution - Laurent Dubois

Haiti and the Great Powers, 1902-1915 - Brenda Gayle Plummer

The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global Goverance - eds. Rita Kiki Edouzie and Keith Gottschalk

Introduction: The Causes and Costs of War in Africa: From Liberation Struggles to the 'War on Terror' - Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, in The Roots of African Conflicts - eds. Alfred Nhema and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Decision in Africa: Sources of Current Conflict - Alphaeus Hunton

Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba - Emmanuel Gerald, Bruce Kuklick

The Intellectual and Political Legacies of Kwame Nkrumah - Ama Biney

Silent Accomplice: The Untold Story of France's Role in the Rwandan Genocide - Andrew Wallis

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa - Robin Philpot

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe - Gerard Prunier

A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide - Linda Melvern

Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda - Timothy Longman

Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide - Gerard Prunier

Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa - Maximilian C. Forte

Garvey, Garveyism and the Antinomies of Black Redemption - C. Boyd James

The Age of Garvey - Adam Ewing

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King - William F. Pepper

Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to their Historical, Cultural and Sacred Traditions (esp. Ch. 14: The Rastafari Chant) - Nathaniel Samuel Murrell

Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land - Erin C. MacLeod

Protest and Mysticism: The Rastafari Cult of Jamaica - Sheila Kitzinger (abstract)

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and the Challenges of Modernity - Stephane Ancel and Eloi Ficquet, in Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia - eds. Gerard Prunier and Eloi Ficquet

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church - Stephane Ancel, Giulia Bonacci and Joachim Persoon (academia.edu)

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea - Mitchell Duneier

The Twentieth Century: A People's History - Howard Zinn

Christianity and the Roots of Human Dignity in Late Antiquity - Kyle Harper, in Christianity and Freedom, Volume 1: Historical Perspectives - eds. Timothy Samual Shah and Allen D. Hertzke (academia.edu)

Christianity and Freedom, Volume 1: Historical Perspectives - eds. Timothy Samuel Shah and Allen D. Hertzke

Christianity and Freedom, Volume 2: Contemporary Perspectives - eds. Allen D. Hertzke and Timothy Samuel Shah

Christian Persecutions in the Middle East - George J. Marlin

Additional Resources

The Oriental Orthodox Churches - Addis Ababa Conference, January 1965