About the Author:
Tibebe Eshete, Ph.D. is a visiting Professor teaching African History and African Religions at Michigan State University. He has taught African History, World History, and US History at Missouri State University, Calvin College, and Cornerstone University. He also taught history at Asmara University and Addis Ababa University. He served as a research coordinator for World Vision Int/Ethiopia. He has published extensively on the Horn of Africa, particularly on Ethio-Somali relations. His recent research publications concentrate on religion and politics and socio-cultural studies pertaining to Ethiopia. His books include The Silent Revolution: The Role of Community Development in Reducing the Demand for Small Arms(2000) and the Evangelical Movement in Ethiopia: Resistance and Resilience (2009), considered by scholars as groundbreaking.
Review:
In his slim, but highly informative and often insightful monograph, Tibebe has offered a vivid portrait of Jijiga's evolution from a dusty garrison village to today's modern capital city of the Somali State (Zone Five). Written with remarkable economy and clarity, this pioneering work in urbanization/urbanism sheds considerable light on the social and political history of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa at large. --Gebru Tareke, Ph.D., Author of Ethiopian Revolution
"Tibebe Eshete deftly explores various aspects of Jijiga s past, linking local developments to regional, national, and international events. This study the first scholarly monograph on Jijiga is particularly welcome because the town is Ethiopia s most important administrative and military center in the east, long an economically and strategically significant yet volatile region." --im Carmichael, Ph.D., Associate Professor at College of Charleston
By combining written and oral sources, Tibebe has successfully reconstructed the history of the frontier town of Jijiga. A precious addition to a very small corpus of works on urban studies in Ethiopia, this book will remain a reference work for long. --Shiferaw Bekele, Professor of History at Addis Ababa University
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