The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman

by Galawdewos, Michael Kleiner, Wendy Laura Belcher

The first English translation of the earliest book-length biography of an African woman

This is the hardcover scholarly edition of the award-winning English translation of the earliest-known book-length biography of an African woman, and one of the few lives of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century. As such, it provides an exceedingly rare and valuable picture of the experiences and thoughts of Africans,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164215
• ISBN13: 9780691164212
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.5" x 10.3"