The Habit of War
Jeremy Harding: Eritrea, 20 July 2006
I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation
by Michela Wrong.
Harper Perennial, 432 pp., £8.99, January 2005,0 00 715095 4 Show More
by Michela Wrong.
Harper Perennial, 432 pp., £8.99, January 2005,
Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War
edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut.
Red Sea, 320 pp., $29.95, April 2005,1 56902 217 8 Show More
edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut.
Red Sea, 320 pp., $29.95, April 2005,
Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
edited by Robert Rotberg.
Brookings, 210 pp., £11.99, December 2005,0 8157 7571 7 Show More
edited by Robert Rotberg.
Brookings, 210 pp., £11.99, December 2005,
“... Eritrea’s war of independence, waged against its imperial neighbour Ethiopia, lasted 30 years and ended in 1991. Often, in the British media, the case against covering the conflict was that if no one had heard of it, it couldn’t be worth the trouble. That kind of argument, which plumps the cushions for the proof to lie on, is hard to counter. Telling the story to a wide non-specialist audience is a daunting prospect and few people have tried; the most successful, until now, was Thomas Keneally, whose novel Towards Asmara (1989), set in the guerrilla-held areas at the time of the liberation war, was a picaresque homage to the Eritrean people ... ”
