Bahru Zewde (born 1947 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian historian and author.[1] He writes extensively about modern Ethiopian history (1855 to the present) and is now an emeritus professor at Addis Ababa University where he once served as the Head of the History Department and the Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies.[2]
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BahruZewde (born 1947 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian historian and author. He writes extensively about modern Ethiopian history (1855 to the present)...
privates, NCOs and junior officers up to the rank of major. According to BahruZewde, "Senior officers were deemed too compromised by close association to...
Italy during the occupation of the Ethiopian Empire in World War II. As BahruZewde notes, in spite of its "marginal impact on the Resistance" the Black...
Heart [better “Intellect”]-born Story), (Italian: Libb Wolled Tarik). BahruZewde writes, "Few people before or after him have demonstrated such superb...
earliest education in Italian schools in Asmara and Keren, although BahruZewde believes he studied at the Swedish mission school in Asmara. Following...
Faqīh suggests it was in close proximity with Harar. Enrico Cerulli, BahruZewde and other historians identify Dakkar as being located one km southeast...
modern weapons received from the British. According to the Historian BahruZewde, the combination of new weapons and the training provided by John Kirkham...
Foreign Minister of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1936 and a writer in Amharic. BahruZewde observes that his career "stands out as the great success story ... of...
they believed was oppressive. The revolt was brutally suppressed; as BahruZewde notes, "Armed mostly with spears and swords, the peasants confronted...
engineers' camp, killing five, wounding several and detaining the rest. BahruZewde later observed, "With that [incident], the illusion that the revolution...
commander of the Ethiopian Empire. Along with his brother Wasane, historian BahruZewde groups Nasibu "among the most colourful of the first-generation intellectuals"...
Ethiopian history," writes Henze. On a similar note, the Ethiopian historian BahruZewde observed that "few events in the modern period have brought Ethiopia...
University Press. 64 (2): 218. doi:10.1017/S0003055400130254. Zewde, Bahru (1991). BahruZewde, [London: James Currey, 1991], p. 196. "A History of Modern...
taken under the protection of Colonel Charles Chamberlain. According to BahruZewde, Colonel Chamberlain took him to Aden where he was made the ward of another...
(Trenton: The Red Sea Press, 1986), p. 204. ISBN 0-932415-11-3; BahruZewde, p. 66. Bahru Zewdu, p. 66. Marcus, Menelik II, p. 186. Dictionary of African...
of the region and with obvious signs of official neglect." Concludes BahruZewde, "The obstruction he encountered even in these remote posts convinced...
his presence would encourage unrest against the Italians. According to BahruZewde, Haile Selassie's victorious return to Ethiopia found his one-time ambassador...
pistols. "It remained the elite force of the empire," notes historian BahruZewde, "until discredited in the wake of the attempted coup of 1960." That...
regretted that many of the rights were enjoyed "subject to the law". BahruZewde stresses the nature of these executive powers in his discussion of this...
Shinn and Thomas P. Ofcansky, eds. (Scarecrow Press, 2004) pp265-266 BahruZewde, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 78 Spencer...
African Royals. Authorities who put the end of the Zemene Mesafint include BahruZewde (A History of Modern Ethiopia, 2nd edition [Oxford: James Curry, 2001]...
which went astray. Sources dispute exactly what Lij Iyasu's did next. BahruZewde states that Iyasu started to march on Addis Ababa, but his advance was...
was accused of converting to Islam. According to Ethiopian historian BahruZewde, the evidence used to prove Iyasu's conversion was a doctored photo of...
of equipment and training made the IEAF, in the opinion of historian BahruZewde, "the most prestigious show-piece of American aid in Ethiopia. It was...
and grind corn! BahruZewde notes that Mengistu was distinguished by a "special ability to size up situations and persons". Although Bahru notes that some...
inside the Weyane revolt of Tigray" (PDF). Retrieved 10 August 2013. BahruZewde, "A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1855–1991", 2nd edition (Oxford: James...
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