The Anglo-Ethiopian Society
Book Club - ONLINE - Shallow Graves - A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War
Richard Reid
Tuesday 15th September 2020
Online event starting at 19:00 BST - Public lecture (all welcome to join).
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The Anglo-Ethiopian Society's book club will discuss Shallow Graves, a personal account of the border war and its aftermath.
This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. Shallow Graves traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation and the region, beginning in the mid-1990s and concluding with the peace agreement signed between the two governments in 2018.
Richard Reid is a historian who was based in Eritrea during the war, and who continued to visit both that country and Ethiopia for several years afterwards. This personal perspective offers a more vivid, intimate portrait of the experience of the war than can normally be offered by putatively ‘objective’ academic accounts. As well as providing first-hand reportage and analysis, Reid problematises the role of the historian—and specifically the foreign historian—as the supposedly impartial observer of events. His eloquent narrative, constructed around conversations and interactions with a range of local witnesses, friends and colleagues, explores the impact of prolonged war and its aftermath—both on private and public memory, and on the nature of history itself.
Richard Reid is Professor of African History at the University of Oxford, currently focusing on histories of war on the continent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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And on 22 September we're holding an event with the book's author, Richard Reid - Shallow Graves - A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War.
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Shallow Graves - A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid. Publisher : Hurst Publishing, March 2020 ISBN : 9781787383289 (paperback) UK RRP £25 (Hurst are currently offering a significant discount on this price for UK buyers.) |