Description Hannah Mariam Meherete-Selassie\'s book, It was Only Yesterday...
The book\'s memoire genre will appeal to all, in particular to those interested in understanding the cultural, social, political and historical ramifications of pre-socialist Ethiopia of 1974..
A promising new author, her readers will enjoy how she has interwoven personal experiences with firsthand knowledge of her great grand-father, one of the world\'s longest reigning monarchs and an important historical figure in Ethiopian, African and world history.
The book\'s narrative is based on diaries kept over the past forty-three years, a collection of family photographs, informal chats and interviews, generational stories, and researching academic books about her great grand-father and family.
It was Only Yesterday is a delightful account of her interactions with friends and family in the backdrop of the intricate world of imperial protocol and palace politics.
Interested in writing from a very young age, her first book It was Only Yesterday offers unique insights about the hardship she faced growing up in a new setting and how she effectively managed change and uncertainty.
By this time Hannah Mariam has fled to United Kingdom where she is granted status as a refugee.
In February 1974, her privileged life comes to an abrupt end with the advent of a bloody upheaval which overthrows her great grand-father\'s government and lands her mother and close family in a rotting Communist jail. is an insider\'s story about life as a royal teenager and growing up in the Jubilee Palace in Africa\'s first royal family under the protective eyes of her great grand-father Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, and Elect of God.
Description Hannah Mariam Meherete-Selassie\'s book, It was Only Yesterday..
