The Life of Walatta-Petros: A Seventeenth-Century Biography of an African Woman, Concise Edition

by Galawdewos and Michael Kleiner

Book Overview

Translated into English for the first time, The Life of Walatta-Petros (1672) tells the story of an Ethiopian saint who lived from 1592 to 1642 and led a successful nonviolent movement to preserve African Christian beliefs in the face of European protocolonialism. This is the oldest-known book-length biography of an African woman written by Africans before the nineteenth century, and one of the earliest stories of African resistance to European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691182914
• ISBN13: 9780691182919
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"