Westerners] as a terribly remote land; a home of pristine piety; a magnifi- cent kingdom; an outpost of savagery; or a bastion of African independ- ence." So writes sociologist Donald
N. Levine in his comprehensive Greater Ethiopia (Univ. of Chicago, 1974, cloth & paper). Often neglected foreign analysts, he observes, are the Ethiopians themselves.
There are more than 20 major Ethiopian tribes. Yet, despite the dif- ferences among such tribes as the no- madic Danakil, the sedentary Wollamo,...