and take a relaxing ride on the beautiful lake on and we ignace the source of the magnificent blue nile the roar of the falls before your heart and the secrets of the hidden islands will fill your so go fishing in the lakes and rivers and soak up the beautiful surroundings while waiting for the fish to bite climbing the vast bottom ranges and to grind lift you to places few have ever seen right through the many parks fall in love with the beauty of nature and marble that centuries old trees from five star hotels to backpackers hostels ethiopia has a wide range of accommodations catering to all kinds of travelers with daily if you can airlines flights to a range of divest a to destinations and rental cars readily available travelling within the country is easy safe and complete if you were hospitality as a way of life come see for illustrate the rich culture within a country where using the very method that was meant to divide to come together our traditions as a form of solidarity and  is not one shy or group of people our diversity is what makes us distinct our culture is not uniforms to one sound or face the story that we tell is not of the past but  in a time of conflict and nationwide uprising we need to band together and acknowledge every unjust act as a collective as a community the suffering of one group or nation should be so me the moment is one that i recall vividly it was a moment when i was in a museum in boston and i happened to see a photograph  army defeating a european army of a black army defeating a white army would play out in this country in the united states at that very particular moment of the eight hundred ninety s which is when the the significance of audio for an american audience so i was a very powerful moment for me and a party because i knew that it couldn't be that an ethiopian american in the photograph it was truly it was an african american who had been here from for some time and in fact in some ways it was a ridiculous portrait because there was nothing about him that would be p o p o but i knew that the photographer i had the sense that the photographer had something important to say with that photograph and by the time i walked from the museum back to my hotel i was thinking about the book and his thinking about how this story could be told first of all as a story of ethiopia and italy especially if ethiopia successful defense of its where this obviously had such a powerful thing so this was back in two thousand and one the story of god what has been my my obsession you could say interesting from that moment on interesting of european expansion remember my earliest work is in european history if you put the battle of ottawa in the context of the expansion of europe it is the great exception because in in the nineteenth century the story of european expansion into africa is a story of european success and of african defeat and  so much sorrow that even you can read this in european newspapers you can read this in american newspapers there is simply the sense that what is happening in africa is inevitable and you can read african americans from this period of low things i wanted to do and it was to understand both how african americans and how european americans responded to and so i look look for traces of what african americans were saying and unfold on the african continent and is exactly where those those ideas begin to change i think so in terms of the the italian strategy and he resists the italian move up as russell lewis had done before him and when what happens is that the italians get some very easy victories early on other early setbacks too but i'm excel reading the story here a little bit southward and as he retreats the italians move in rapidly and occupy significant portions of tikrit and it looks like a devastating triumph i mean looks like  the impossible and in italy he goes back to italy in the summer of ninety five and he's treated as a hero that's true that's true and what he what he doesn't understand is quite clearly is that he doesn't have the forces to control that ethiopian suffer some serious defeats their marketing strips and particularly them for some significant defeats but they lay siege and after a month galliano has to surrender and then mentally does something really really smart he decides he's not going to march on eventually i would and that's where the conflict takes place so i think this i think we really this is a battle that odd was a battle that's one when men alike moved to move to the northwest and  and so we hope you can join us in one hundred twelve one one and also i think there's many ethiopians and other african americans who come to america in the seattle area just you know this our area there's about thirty thousand ethiopians you know and many of them have this great right but you know they either can't afford college or some other things you know and we would like you know to one day have some kind of connection with the university of washington it's create african american studies and international studies and we hope to work on you with that and you wonderful with it so it's a field that i was we were just discussing it's a field that's still young this huge amount of potential we the history department here is just in the last ten years has hired an african historian lynn thomas she's very good we have other africanus in other parts of the university in our history and have to apology and so i think we're beginning to see a momentum now in favor of getting african studies going on the university of washington campus and getting the kind of representation and attention that  situations that happened during the time that was really added to it so you could just basically write about this specific time oh why did why are you interested in ethiopia so i'm going to look at that too i'm reading what the kinds of messages that matter what was trying to get out but also how those messages were received especially by the pope in rome because either the italians of course were passed like the pope was important leader for many italians so i'm reading the the italian press and even the vatican press to try to bring that story that part of the story out to so i mean what i'm trying to do is to write chapters need to touch on some of these other issues if you enough of the flavor of of these issues to to to make it interesting to the reader but not so much detail that it's that it's heavy an they so easily lose track of where they came from and i mean my own i can tell you that my own family came to the states some of them came from england some came from  germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and they they obviously people they came here because they were unhappy where they were it was difficult and one natural reaction to that was that they wanted nothing to do with where they came from they closed themselves off from their families back there and they built a new life here and one of the sad things of that is that they have no we now later generations have no connections with the old country you know connections with the culture the language and there's a good side to that in a way we're comfortable or happy on the other hand there's a sense that we're missing something that there are important family relationships that we've missed important cultural ties  think present generations of americans people who've come more recently are a lot better at staying in touch partly that's technology it's easier to you can fly you don't have to take a boat you know the internet and telephone to stay in touch and i think that 's all good so i mean my advice would be to take advantage of that stay in touch if you can go back if you can those are important relationships to cultivate and to develop for you la bla no