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Film, Video Accidental American: From Proud Ethiopian to "Naturalized US-ian"

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Title

  • Accidental American: From Proud Ethiopian to "Naturalized US-ian"

Summary

  • Yonnas Kefle wrote his autobiography as part of the huge Ethiopian history hitherto unknown and aspired to present it to the world. The outcome is a 630-page compendium beginning with his personal ethnological link with royalty, of his ethnic lineages, the beginning of the unity of Ethiopia continuing to the period of student rebellion in which he himself participated, and finally to the 1974 revolution that became an immediate reason for his migration to the United States. This huge work consists of important assessments of the monarchical period of Ethiopian history, the Ethiopian Students Movement and of the 1974 revolution. He also has important reflections on pertinent historical events while in the U.S.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2021-01-12.

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Yonnas Kefle.
  • -  Recorded on 2021-01-12.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697364

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Accidental American: From Proud Ethiopian to "Naturalized US-ian". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-12, 2021. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697364/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2021) Accidental American: From Proud Ethiopian to "Naturalized US-ian". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697364/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Accidental American: From Proud Ethiopian to "Naturalized US-ian". Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -01-12, 2021. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697364/>.