Ethiopian Herald, 20th November 2006

British author publishes book entitled “An Ethiopian Odyssey”

Addis Ababa - Annette Allen, a British author who was a student of the Nazareth School here in Addis Ababa some 40 years ago, published a book in a bid to raise funds for the execution of potable water, sanitation, and humanitarian interventions in Ethiopia and the Middle East.

The new non-fiction book entitled “An Ethiopian Odyssey” was launched here at Nazareth School yesterday in the presence of President Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

Every five pound sterling of the unit price of the book, which is 18 pound sterling, would be donated to different humanitarian organizations for the same cause.

The 270- page book depicts the ‘memoir of friends-reunited story’ about nine classmates of the author in Nazareth School indicating what has happened to them during the last 40 years since the author’s departure in July 1964.

The book also incorporated interviews of four school friends as to how their lives were affected by political events in Ethiopia and elsewhere during the reported time.

Hirut Girma, daughter of President Girma Wolde-Giorgis who died in 1978, was also the school friend of the author. Genet Girma told the story of her sister to the author.

Annette traveled 25, 000 miles to collect the data before writing the book.

(ENA)