โ Scribed by Aida Edemariam
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The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman โ and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. A new 'Wild Swans' Born in 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemaraim's grandmother has stood, shaking, as fascist troops searched her home for guns she knew were there; in the late 1930s and early 40s she fled both Italian and Allied bombardment. She has begged for mercy from Emperor Haile Selassie, for a husband imprisoned for treason, then, widowed, spent the 50s personally wresting from the emperor a promise to educate five of her seven living children. For thirteen years she fought through courts unused to women defending their assets. A feudal landlord herself, she felt the first tremors of the coming revolution, then, in the 70s, watched it burst into flower: night after night she listened, praying desperately, to the firing squads of the Red Terror, and endured soldiers tramping through her home. She has seen her land nationalised and...
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