15 - The Influence of Ancient Ethiopia

In this episode, Eddie Glaude sits down with Professor Wendy Belcher to discuss her recent book. Prof. Belcher reveals her connection to Ethiopia, and how her life experiences of growing up white in Africa seep through her perspective and understanding. Professor Belcher explains how her curiosity pushed her to research, archive, and translation ancient Ethiopian writing; becoming the foundation of her recent book, The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman.

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15 - The Influence of Ancient Ethiopia is an episode from AAS 21 Podcast by African American Studies.

This episode is 33:30 long.

This episode was published on Mar 12, 2019.

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