Bøger om Eritrea

Da Giuseppe Martini - dansk født, men opvokset som adoptivbarn i den italienske koloni i Addis Abeba - hører om det italienske angreb på Abessinien, væmmes han ved sin plejefamilie og deres fascistiske anskuelser, og i stedet for at flygte sammen med dem, bliver han tilbage. Sammen med høvdingesønnen Kifele drager han i stedet afsted for at slutte sig til de abessinske styrker. Undervejs oplever han sult og sygdom og den italienske besættelsesmagts ugerninger mod den lokale befolkning, og til sidst opnår han et møde med ingen mindre end Etiopiens kejser Haile Selassie.Drenge under våben er skrevet og udkom første gang i 1936, samme år, som det fascistiske Italien besatte Abessinien (svarende til nutidens Etiopien og Eritrea) og er en skarp kommentar til begivenhederne dernede - et særsyn i datidens børne og ungdomslitteratur, der sjældent tog stilling til sin omverden.

Das Wörterbuch enthält ca. 10.000 Lexeme und umfasst den gebräuchlichsten Wortschatz des Tigrinischen, der Nationalsprache Eritreas und einer der Arbeitssprachen Äthiopiens. Es beinhaltet Beispiele aus Originalquellen mit deutscher und englischer Übersetzung, darunter Wortverbindungen, Redewendungen, Sprichwörter und Rätsel. Ca. 400 der aufgeführten Wörter kommen in keinem der bisher erschienenen Wörterbücher dieser semitischen Sprache vor. Am Ende sind geografische Namen und gängige Abkürzungen verzeichnet.Es ist ein Häufigkeitswörterbuch, welches neben dem allgemeinen Wortschatz verschiedene Gebiete des modernen Sprachgebrauchs umfasst, darunter Fachbegriffe, Dialekt- und Tabuwörter. Ebenfalls enthalten sind zahlreiche wort- und formbildende Sprachsilben sowie grammatische Konstruktionen mit anschaulichen Erklärungen. Dank der komplexen Struktur der Einträge unterscheidet sich das Wörterbuch vorteilhaft von den bisher bekannten Gegenstücken. Es richtet sich an Sprecherinnen und Sprecher aller drei Sprachen und eignet sich zum Lesen und Übersetzen von Texten bis zu einem mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad. Es wird für diejenigen von Nutzen sein, die die jeweilige Sprache lernen oder lehren, sich mit Tigrinistik, Semitistik, Typologie, Übersetzungs- und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaften beschäftigen oder tigrinische Literatur im Original lesen.

In questo 1956 l’Italia non ha mai preso parte alla Prima Guerra Mondiale. Tutto ha inizio nel 1896, quando invece di perderla, l’Italia ha vinto la Battaglia di Adua, in Etiopia. Da lì, la Storia che si conosce ha preso altre pieghe. In tutto questo, Francesco Campani, commissario di Macallé, in Eritrea, si troverà a indagare su un caso di omicidio successo mezzo secolo prima.In questa realtà parallela, dove i nomi che hanno segnato la prima metà del Novecento italiano si ritrovano in destini alternativi, Campani avrà tra le mani un mistero inusuale, particolare come la Storia che sta vivendo.Luca Ongaro è uno scrittore italiano. Autore di noir e thriller, i suoi romanzi si contraddistinguono per l’attenzione dedicata alla Storia, alla quale si intrecciano molti dei misteri da lui ideati.

This book focuses on regions for which until now the geomorphology was very poorly studied and relatively unknown. Nevertheless, the landforms and landscapes of the Horn of Africa are highly attractive, diverse and in a few cases unique, since they span very different environments, from highland plateaus and mountains to lowlands (even below sea level) and coastlines with a high degree of diversity and from monsoon to arid climate conditions.  The main topics addressed in the book include the links between the geological evolution and the current large scale geomorphology of the Horn of Africa; the large differences between the highlands and lowlands climate, river hydrology and their variation through time within a climate change perspective. This part of the world was home of the very first hominids. The landscape in which they lived and evolved throughout the Pleistocene is described in comparison with the arid and inhospitable, though immensely scenic, environment of today. Perennial and ephemeral rivers with very different morphology, processes, and hydrology drain the area, and, in combination with the past and recent uplift, substantially contributed to provide the region with peculiar landscapes and landforms. Long lasting weathering and erosion processes result in a typical inselberg landscape such as the Bur region, or the currently exposed flatland of old peneplain surfaces. Their changes through time, induced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, are addressed by a couple of case studies. Though the region has few inhabitants, they had to struggle to find their livelihood in a land that offers poor resources. This resulted in landscape change and land degradation. Examples of human impact on the landscape are presented at different scales.  This book provides readers interested in geography and geomorphology with essential scientific and educational information on the Landscapes and Landforms of Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia through simple, though scientifically, rigorous texts illustrated with several color maps and photos. One main prerogative of this book is therefore to give an insight into a region of the world where, for geographical and historical constraints, geomorphological investigation was very limited, thus enriching its intrinsic informative value.