About the Author

Sven A. Rubenson was born in Sweden and educated at the University of Lund where he received degrees in Philosophy. He went to Ethiopia in 1947 and spent 30 years there in teaching, research, and administration. He established the department of history at the Haile Sellassie I University in 1962 and was dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1968-70. After his return to Sweden in 1977, he taught for ten years at Lund University. His publications include Wichale XVII: The Attempt to Establish a Protectorate over Ethiopia (1964), King of Kings Tewodros of Ethiopia (1966), The Survival of Ethiopian independence (1976), and numerous articles on the Horn of Africa.