Author: Yves-Marie Stranger
Published: 2022
Pages: 183
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Ethiopia has the largest donkey contingent in the world and is also home to perhaps a million horses. Historically, the horse-and the mule-have been both a symbol of power and prestige, as well as one of the main actors in the conquests, wars and movements of peoples across the Ethiopian landscape. You cannot imagine an 'Ethiopian culture', an 'Ethiopian civilization', without equines. And yet, it is an unknown facet of the country, especially today, when, in barely more than a generation or two, and in the aftermath of the eradication of a reigning family and aristocracy that cast itself as being of 'millennial origin', it is a history of the country that is now largely ignored, by the elites of the country themselves. The horse-and other equines are not only an indissoluble part of Ethiopia's history but are also imbricated in the daily economic life of the countryside. But if everyone knows' that Mongolia is 'a country of the horse', and while North Africa is famous for its equestrian fantasias, Ethiopia's equine history remains largely occulted.
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