By nearly all accounts–political, social, and moral–Ethiopia in the mid-1980s was one of the crisis points in contemporary global relations. According to Harold Marcus, the answers to many Ethiopian issues, including politics and subsistence, are as varied as Ethiopia’s cultural, linguistic, and religious inheritances.
In a commentary [23:00], John Sekora outlines the life and work of the first black American man of letters, William Wells Brown, the nineteenth-century novelist, historian, physician, and journalist. Sekora continues Brown’s story in Episode 282, February 23, 1986.
At the time of this interview, Marcus, a Fellow of the National Humanities Center (1985-86), was professor of history at Michigan State University.
Sekora, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1982-83), was professor of English at North Carolina Central University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
