Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
Essais et documents primés, Biographies, Histoire (biographies), Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires)
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Résumé
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment,… famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.