Eritrea
(see also Ethiopia & Sudan)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators
World Guide (Montevideo)
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
Connell, Dan. "Eritrea: a revolution in process," Monthly Review 45,3 (7-8/93):1-26.
__________. "Letter from Eritrea," Nation (3/29/99):22-24.
Heiden, Linda. "The Eritrean struggle for independence," Monthly Review 30,2 (6/78):13-28.
Kaplan, Robert. "A tale of two colonies," Atlantic Monthly (4/03):46-54.
Watson, Guy. "Solar system," New Internationalist (4/95):6. Solar power systems for Eritrean hospitals.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Abbay, Alemseged. Identity Jilted, or, Re-Imagining Identity? The Divergent Paths of the Eritreaan and Tigrayan Nationalist Struggles (Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1998).
Bariagaber, Assefaw. Eritrea, Conflict & Involuntary Population Displacements (Geneva, 2000).
Bereketeab, Redie. Eritrea: The Making of a Nation, 1890-1991 (Uppsala: Uppsala U, 2000).
Birhan, Addis. Eritrea: A Problem Child of Ethiopia. Causes, Consequences & Strategic Implications of the Conflict (Addis Ababa, 1998).
Cliffe, Lionel et al. Beyond Conflict in the Horn (Trenton NJ: Red Sea, 1992).
Connell, Dan. Against All Odds. A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution (rev. ed.; Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1997). Eyewitness account in the tradition of John Reed & Edgar Snow.
__________. Getting Home is Only Half the Challenge: Refugee Reintegration in War-Ravaged Eritrea (Washington: US Committee for Refugees, 2001). On the return of half a million refugees from Sudan.
__________. Rethinking Revolution: New Strategies for Democracy & Social Justice. The Experiences of Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine & Nicaragua (Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 2001).
Davidson, Basil; Lionel Cliffe & Bereket Habte Selassie (eds.) Behind the War in Eritrea (Nottingham: Spokesman, 1980).
Hansson, Gote. Eritrea 1999: A Bleeding Country that Never Kneels Down (Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000).
Hauser, Karen A. Eritrea After the War (NY: Eritrean Relief Committee, 1991).
Machida, Robert. Eritrea: The Struggle for Independence (Trenton NJ: Red Sea, 1987).
Medhanie, Tesfatsion. Eritrea & Neighbors in the "New World Order": Geopolitics, Democracy & "Islamic Fundamentalism" (Munster, 1994).
Minority Rights Group. Eritrea & Tigray (London, 1983).
Morrison, Godfrey. Eritrea & the Southern Sudan: Aspects of Some Wider African Problems (London, 1976).
Negash, Tekeste. Eritrea &
Ethiopia: The Federal Experience (New Brunswick NJ, 1997).
Pateman, Roy. Eritrea. Even the Stones are Burning (2nd rev. ed.;Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1998).
Peninou, Jean Louis. Eritrea: The Guerrillas of the Red Sea (NY: EFLNA, 1976).
Pool, David Ian. Eritrea, Africa's Longest War (rev. ed.; London: Anti-Slavery Society, 1982).
__________. Eritrea: Towards Unity in Diversity (London: Minority Rights Group, 1997).
Sherman, Richard. Eritrea: The Unfinished Revolution (NY: Praeger, 1980).
Tekle, Amare (ed.) Eritrea and
Ethiopia: From Conflict to Cooperation (Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1994).
Tesfagiorgis, Abeba. A Painful Season & a Stubborn Hope. The Odyssey of an Eritrean Mother (Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1992).
Tesfagiorgis, Gebre Hiwet (ed.) Emergent Eritrea: Challenges of Economic Development (Trenton NJ: Red Sea, 1993).
Trevaskis, Gerald K.N. Eritrea: A Colony in Transition, 1941-52 (NY: Oxford, 1960).
Turshen, Meredeth & Clotilde Twagiramariya (eds.) What Women Do in Wartime: Gender & Conflict in Africa (NY: Zed, 1998).
Yohannes, Okbazghi. Eritrea: A Pawn in World Politics (Gainesville: U. Florida, 1991).
In the Library: Fiction
Keneally, Thomas. To Asmara (NY: Warner, 1989).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
Kinnock, Glenys. Eritrea: Images of War & Peace (London: Chatto & Windus, 1988).
Papstein, Robert. Eritrea. Revolution at Dusk (Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea, 1991).
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Eritrea: Women Combat Prejudices" (1997), 25m. From Common Ground Productions.
"Eritrea" (1990), dir. Susan Kalish, 30m. From Cinema Guild.