Amharic History

 

Book Title: Ye Habesha Jebdu

Author: Adolf Parlsak 

Translator: Techane Jobre Mekonnen

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Genre: History

Publishing Date: 1989 E.C

Language: Amharic 

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Ye Habesha Jebdu

Amharic self-help

Book Title: Eyita

Author: Dr Eyob Mamo

Price: 55 ETB /10 USD

Genre: Self-help /motivational

Publishing Date: 2009 E.C

Language: Amharic 

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Better Vision for Excellent life 

Man is a creature who fights his situations brought by his attitudes. S/he struggles through continuous efforts by saying "My situations should change".   But he doesn't want to change the very attitude and vision that brought the situation. He doesn't even observe the attitude that brought the situation. But he can't escape from the results of  not knowing it.  Without changing his attitudes, every efforts to change is worthless and makes him to live with the issues.  That's why they tells us like this:-

• Be careful of your thoughts as your thoughts leads to your words
• Be careful of your talks as your talks leads to your actions
• Be careful of your actions as your actions leads to your behavior 
• Be careful of your behaviors as the lead to your life's destination

For example, fear and shame thoughts leads to weak and without decision lifestyles. In addition, becoming a failure and who lives on the shoulders of others are situations that will be manifested in real world.  Lazy ideas leads to carelessness lifestyle fast.  Finally, living by begging would be manifested in real world.  Thoughts of hate would change to conflict and other related lifestyles.  Not lately worse situations such as getting into prison will be the destiny. The specified negative attitudes and reflections can be changed in real life easily by changing our thinking habits into healthy once.

In this book titled "Vision"; Dr Eyob has presented it clearly that every person is the result of his attitudes and visions and how can we change our attitudes so that to live better life.

Introduction

People who believes that, the thing called "Idea" is not a real thing, and it just appears now and disappears after that and becomes instinct for ever is wrong. 

Amharic Novels

Book Title: Ye Ogaden Dimetoch

Author: Yismaeke Worku

Genre: Novel /Investigative Journal 

Publishing Date: 2009 E.C

Language: Amharic

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For year I have been working hard to get out of magic/unreal life. My todays journey can be considered as one of the attempts. In order to straighten out my mind, I have arrived in Ogaden. No chemist has a made a medicine that heals than work. Work is my medicine. The hidden secret behind work is better explained by the retired ones.  They know how many times the get unwell during their stay at home. 

When a foreign organization that operates in Ogaden invites me for a high-level field visit, I booked a ticket and traveled by myself without hesitation; to indulge myself in work and committed to relieve from magic life. 

Ethiopian Airlines owned Boeing plane is lowering its height to land in Gode. Below is a reflecting ocean-like flat desert sand.  The reflection blinds your eye. The strong wind mixed with the sand is forming a cobra like shape as if it would support the sky.

The air plane followed by the strong wind land in Gode air field cruising forward. When it landed at a thirty five meter width by two thousand eighty meters length runway with speed, passengers who came speaking in Somali language start to speaking louder and rush out in crowds out of the plane. 

The last to move out of the plane was me. Gode received me with hot air and sandy wind. Gode airport was opened and inaugurated by King of Kings His Majesty Haileslassie in 1959 E.C for military base even though it is serving for civilian transport purposes. It was destroyed after it was occupied by Somalia invading forces to prevent Ethiopian Jets from landing but restored and built again after victory. I was watching the sky when I passed through the terminal. It looks like a door that spits fire. The sun was too hot. The strong and noisy wind was about to blow me out. I see a woman who waiting for me by holding a banner that says "Doctor Didimos Dore Welcome". Even though she doesn't know me physically, she knows me by my work. I have talked her on the phone even though I don't know her physically too. Ayan is an employee of the foreign company that invited me.

When I see a title "Doctor", I feel like I am a scholar. Even though the educations I attended in different countries like Archelogy, Physiology, and Anthropology made me to get this title, I was feeling that I am still backward and primitive person. I was invited due to my Phd degree qualifications in Social Anthropology publications that got acknowledgement worldwide even though I am fond of the old age research. It seems like I am drowned in the ocean in the magic world. A magic man who can see the oceans hand. 

I was heading to the girl who stood up holding my title while still dreaming. The wind storm was blowing her yellow outfit.  I come to learn about her beauty when I came closer. Her voice is also beautiful as her.

Amharic comedy books

Book Title: Keldoch - Ke Gabrovo Midir

Author: Arefayne Hagos

Genre: Comedy

Publishing Date: -

Language: Amharic

Pages: 105

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Funny Joke collections from the land of Gabrovo

Once upon a time tales recorded in history reports that a Bulgarian Mrs. Bezhana immigrated to Viliko Tarnovo (Bulgarian Capital City) with her children when the Balkan see and land was under Turkish control. One of the children of the Bulgarian was named Racho. Racho used to live in stony Yantra river side. The city built by Racho is called Gabrovo. A monument is erected in honor of  the city's founder Racho, at an island where the river Yantra crosses the city of Gabrovo. People of humor of Gabrovo jokes "its a place that can't provide any service"; when they remember about the place where the monument is erected. 

Gabrovo's land is rough making the inhabitants life tiresome and difficult. It might be because of that the Gabrovo's are handworkers, creative and humorous. Jokes collected in this book proves us that the Gabrovo are wise with creative skills who lives economically and with care. However, some also call them greedy and selfish. But no body denies they live by considering their future life in mind, economically and with wisdom. 

Today, Gabrovo is among one of the best known Bulgaria's regions that produces different industrial products. Gabrovo inhabitants are said to cut their cat's tails when they enter or exit their homes in order to minimize heat dissipation in summer season. Because of that a cat with its tail cut is used as symbol/icon of a jokes and satire international festival that is celebrated every two years.

This international jokes and satire festival has been celebrated for the seventh time this year. The competitions ceremony is conducted in Gabrovo city's three floor building jokes and satire center. The center is established in 1963 and it got registered by UNESCO after seven years of starting service. In short the Gabrovo land is becoming a center of international joke and satire center.

The Gabrovo might not be admired because they are funny or they are unique creatures. But, people who read this book will definitely have fun and joy by the Gabrovo jokes. That's why the book is distributed and translated in different languages including in English, Russian, Francaise, Germany languages. 

Amharic fiction books

Book Title: Yetangut Mistir

Author: Birhanu Zerihun

Genre: Historical fiction

Publishing Date: 1958

Language: Amharic

This Amharic e-book titled "Yetangut Mistir" is published back in the 1950s by author Birhanu Zerihun. Many say this book is one of the few masterpiece historical fictions published and loved by many.   The fiction is written based on the life of the late Ethiopian Emperor Atse Tewodros. It has 228 pages. It has a total of seven Chapters. 

Chapter 1:

Starting from Atse Fasil monarchy, Gondar was used to be the center of power, social movements and starting from the new Atse Tewodros's system, to accustom his new commanders with the new troops, he was worried and confused as if he received a new honorable guest or as if he is hosting a wedding.

However, the messed social relationship can't be resolved and couldn't be. Gondar has sprout out completely new social structures and fruit since it was founded. 

A city is like cultivated land. It creates new social thinking, new life and fruits  from social lifestyles and if not weeded out it will produce unwanted things. If the arable land is not treated  with care, weeds will dominate and create useless seeds. It will be uncultivated land. Gondar city's social life become stagnant as weed dominated land; with no fruit for one hundred thirty years.

When Fasil founded Gondar, the troops was new to refreshment, not bored for their tasks, not lazy by seeking comfort and was always ready for new orders. They have purpose. They were punishing by moving from place to place those who cause civil disobedience and unrest due to religious reasons.  Troublemakers were announced. Peace was guarded. In addition, there was a new Catholic missionary from the commanders who preach, denounce or bless his spiritual life and stand besides them by holding a cross. The crowned, the crowners, the commanders and the preachers social life and thinking was guided with the same marching spirit. Fasil was building his castles and churches by considering it as a sign of  his earthly and eternal powers because of this same spirit. However, he did not imagine at that time that this will be used for new beginnings to spring out.

Around the beautiful buildings new bars started to be opened. Around the churches new priests started to gather who spread rumors and prayers. Around the castle indecent soldiers start court women as a weed. In every places new beauties' start to play with the princes by wearing perfumes.  

As Gondar city started to develop, shine and populated because of new churches built by kings who base in Fasil, so has increased the social lifestyles and social crisis come to widen.   This social crisis has been intensified during the era of kings (Zemene Mesafint). 

Even the buildings have been come old. Some buildings crumbled; doors fallen to become birds nests.

Every prince was conspiring in the night and sent to prison or hidden when caught in his third day after knighted. As power changes as the winds and knighthood lasts honesty and treachery can't be permanent. It changes by weighing the gesture and judgement.