Gift of Incense: A Story of Love and Revolution in Ethiopia

by Judith Ashakih and Abubakar Ashakih

Book Overview

This book chronicles a unique twentieth century story, the emigration to Ethiopia in the early 1960s of Judy Linder and of her marriage to African musician Abubajer Ashakih. What emerges is not simply a personal memoir but also a living picture of a unique time and place in East Africa before it was forever changed by revolution and famine. The reader, especially the Western reader, shares through the life story of Abubaker the lives of a remarkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569021813
• ISBN13: 9781569021811
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.