On Valentine’s Day 1984, Baalu vanished in what history has recorded as an act of revenge by the regime, cementing Oromay’s status as a modern Ethiopian classic. The translation by David ...

Now finally published in the UK, Baalu Girma’s novel Oromay follows a TV journalist as he navigates Ethiopia’s political upheaval On a cold winter morning in Addis Ababa, four days before the ...

Among other strands, that’s precisely what this fabled Ethiopian novel of 1983 delivers. Which is remarkable, given that Baalu Girma’s semi-autobiographical thriller of rebellion and repression, love ...