The first Africanists (specialists who study African languages, societies, and history) were not colonial researchers, as is often assumed, but African intellectuals who were actively engaged in the production of knowledge about their own societies.
Germany seems to have a rather interestingly long history in intellectual collaboration in the study of Ethiopia. Hiob Ludolf and Abba Gorgoryos's joint work, for instance, is in many ways the start of serious European scholarship on the country.
Aleqa Taye was one of few scholars who successfully shed light on "Baghdad Overwrite" before any European Scholars ever did.
His pioneering argument that the title Abu was domesticated by later "Baghdad Overwrite" has been used as an anchor ⚓ to help found several schools including the
The Saarbrücken School (Inarah) which produced some of the finest in the field. Likes of Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Volker Popp.
Learned a lot on this one. Thank you
Germany seems to have a rather interestingly long history in intellectual collaboration in the study of Ethiopia. Hiob Ludolf and Abba Gorgoryos's joint work, for instance, is in many ways the start of serious European scholarship on the country.
Indeed, there maybe alot of German research on Ethiopia that remains unknown because of the Anglophone bias.
Aleqa Taye was one of few scholars who successfully shed light on "Baghdad Overwrite" before any European Scholars ever did.
His pioneering argument that the title Abu was domesticated by later "Baghdad Overwrite" has been used as an anchor ⚓ to help found several schools including the
The Saarbrücken School (Inarah) which produced some of the finest in the field. Likes of Karl-Heinz Ohlig and Volker Popp.
Check this out. 👇
https://www.samael.ink/p/the-abna-controversy-linguistic-divergence-4bc
Interesting read, thanks for sharing.