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 ... For, as Tsegaye realises when picking skulls from the sand at the site of an earlier battle, it’s impossible to ...

Which is remarkable, given that Baalu Girma’s semi-autobiographical thriller of rebellion ... of Asmara and nearby highland killing-fields of ‘scorched rock and scalded sand’, he witnesses cynicism, ...

No rose-colored glasses are needed at these stunning stretches of sand. You may have heard of white and black sand beaches, but what about shores with pink sands? Though rare, several countries ...