The unique manuscript collections of Ethiopia and Eritrea written in the Ge'ez script are arguably the best-known works of literature produced in pre-colonial Africa.
There is a lot of eurocentric rhetoric here. There is absolutely no evidence that the Kebra Negast was copied from any Arabic or Coptic sources and clearly Ge'ez was not a spoken language until Axum.
There is a lot of eurocentric rhetoric here. There is absolutely no evidence that the Kebra Negast was copied from any Arabic or Coptic sources and clearly Ge'ez was not a spoken language until Axum.