Wit and Wisdom of Ethiopia

Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of Ethiopia written by and published by Tsehai Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book represents an endeavor "to share with the outside world the wit and wisdom of Ethiopia which is too good to be kept bottled up in the native language of one land." Professor Negussay Ayele, who compiled, translated, and edited hundreds of these words of wisdom with Introduction and Annotations, is an a noted academic who has taught for more than twenty five years in Ethiopia and in the United States. INSIDE THE PAGES OF WIT AND WISDOM OF ETHIOPIA"With kids things are now serious, now frivolous.""The center of the earth is where you are right now: if you doubt that, measure it.""Trying to reach out for what was in the attic, she dropped what she had tucked in her armpit."The volume at hand ? is a modest effort to share with the outside world the wit and wisdom of Ethiopia, which is too good to be kept bottled up in the native language of one land.Now that Ethiopia is the original locus and habitat of the earliest homonids-homo afarensis/ramidus every human being is in effect an Ethiopian and can therefore proudly claim the heritage of Wit and Wisdom presented in this volume.