GIFT OF INCENSE : A Story of Love and Revolution in Ethiopia - Softcover

Abubakar Ashakih; Judith Ashakih

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569021813 ISBN 13: 9781569021811

Publisher: THE RED SEA PRESS, 2005

Synopsis

This book chronicles a unique twentieth century story, the emigration to Ethiopia in the early 1960s of Judy Linder and of her marriage to African musician Abubajer Ashakih. What emerges is not simply a personal memoir but also a living picture of a unique time and place in East Africa before it was forever changed by revolution and famine. The reader, especially the Western reader, shares through the life story of Abubaker the lives of a remarkable group of Ethiopian and Eritrean people in a country that had found a way to balance Muslim and Christian traditions.

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Synopsis

Gift Of Incense describes the emigration of Judy Linder and her musician husband, Abubakar Ashakih, to Ethiopia in the early 60s before it was forever changed by revolution and famine. The reader shares the life story of a remarkable group of Ethiopian and Eritrean people in a country that found a way to balance Muslim and Christian traditions and a beautiful culture unique to the modern world. In this respect Gift Of Incense is a compelling and timely story that cries out to be heard in this time of intolerance and religious violence. What also emerges is a picture of an East Africa that has been forever changed and is not likely to return. Judith Ashakih also eloquently opens a window onto the loss of a culture as it has been experienced by the expatriate community of East Africans living in the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: THE RED SEA PRESS
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1569021813
• ISBN 13: 9781569021811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320