The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
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The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman
A groundbreaking translation! This earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who successfully led a nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European innovations. Features dozens of color illustrations from early manuscripts. 544 pages, hardcover. Princeton University.