Living history
Mazaa moved to New York from Ethiopia when she was four (photo: Selamta Magazine) Novelist Maaza Mengiste talks about turning...
Maaza Mengiste
‘The Shadow King’ Is A Gorgeous Meditation On Memory, War And Violence
Maaza Mengiste's The Shadow King opens with a woman, Hirut, sitting on the floor of a train station in the Ethiopian city...
One Girl’s Fight to Learn in Ethiopia: An Interview with Writer Maaza Mengiste
By Mikael Awake Maaza Mengiste and I met six years ago. We were both in the audience of a literary reading...