Inter-Racial Implications of the Ethiopian Crisis: A Negro View

Abstract

THE hands which the Land of Burnt Faces is today stretch ing forth to the God of Things-that-be are both physical and spiritual; and today, as yesterday, they twine gnarled fingers about the very roots of the world. Physically, Ethiopia's fingers are those rough mountain masses of Northeast Africa which form the defensive rampart of the continent and against which Egyptian and Persian and Turk, British and French and Italian, have so far hammered in vain. is a great pear-shaped mountain mass, cut into island-like sections which are separated by deep gorges and ravines. It looks, says the traveller, like a storm-tossed sea, suddenly solidified. In these highlands both the Blue Nile and the Atbara rise, and thus Abyssinia commands a full half of the waters of the Nile. was a German who said