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Blurbs and Reviews --
“Professor Daniel Kendie has
written an informative and well-researched study of the
Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict. His book presents ideas that probably will
be new to many readers. The chapters on the people of Eritrea and on
Eritrea as a colony are especially enlightening. He reviews the
literature on the subject and boldly exposes works that he believes lack
rigor in research and writing. Dr. Daniel’s analysis of the root cause
of the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is persuasive and logical. The
history of Ethiopia’s involvement with Islam and the Middle East fills a
void in the literature in a timely way. There also are noteworthy
chapters that deal with Ethiopia’s relations with Israel and Egypt,
including the hydro-politics of the Blue Nile. Daniel’s solution for the
border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia is realistic and practical.
In his powerful conclusion, Daniel suggests federation between the two
countries as a way out of the impasse, arguing that a federation could
serve as a nucleus around which to build economic cooperation and
integration of the countries of the Horn of Africa. I recommend this
book highly.”
Dr. Theodore
Vestal, Professor of Political Science,
Oklahoma State University, is the first American honored with the Hiob
Ludolf Endowed Professorship for studies on current Ethiopian issues at
Hamburg University.
“Daniel Kendie has written a sparkling history of Eritrea in intrinsic
relationship to its mother country - Ethiopia. His evocative and
intimate style, as well as his critical insights into the history of
what used to be known to outsiders as ‘Abyssinia,’ is a major
contribution to our empirical and conceptual understanding of the Horn
of Africa. Dr. Daniel Kendie’s pioneering work on the history of Eritrea
and the geo-politics of the conflict is marked by prodigious research
and cogent argument. In this work, the author maintains a high level of
scholarship and challenges many of the previous assumptions that have
crept into the region’s historiography. All students of African history,
politics and economics, as well as that of the Middle East, ought to
notice the enormous contribution this brave, penetrating, and thought
provoking monograph offers.”
Dr. Paulos
Milkias, Department of Political Science,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
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