WASHINGTON - When novelist Maaza Mengiste began researching the Ethiopian resistance to the 1935 invasion by Italian forces, she came across photographs of women dressed in military attire with rifles slung over their shoulders. “These women decided to join in the front lines,” Maaza told VOA. “The story is important, really, the opening shots of the Second World War, but rarely told before. (From the collection of Maaza Mengiste)“Across East Africa, history and literature is told orally,” Maaza said. Over the next year, Maaza plans to hold workshops to train translators, editors and writers of fiction and nonfiction.

Source: Ethiopian News January 27, 2021 12:11 UTC