IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY, PILLARS, Volume I of William Leo Hansberry's African History Notebook Joseph E. Harris edited the book. The four pieces in Volume I, better defined as narrative histories, are taken from William Leo Hansberry's private documents and decode and extract the foundations of Ethiopia's unity from the tangle of myth, folklore, and bogus historical material.
Our plot will revolve on the ancient Ethiopian Cushite kingdom, which spanned three continents and ruled for three thousand years. We shall travel to ancient Ethiopia, where "the gods delighted to banquet with the pious inhabitants." as Herodotus put it. We shall look at the history of the region and the ancient people. The "Old Race," which Petrie discovered in…
