If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable historical condition--its independence save for five years under Italian occupation--mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia --the first book-length study of the topic--Elizabeth W.
Giorgis recognizes that her home country's supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader colonial .
Ohio University Press Modernist art in ethiopia, paperback/elizabeth giorgis
