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| Books | The MUA Library South C campus - Fiction & Motivation | Biographies | PR 9381.9 .M36 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 2009-1209 | |
| Books | The MUA Library South C campus - Fiction & Motivation | Biographies | PR 9381.9 .M36 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 2009-1208 |
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| PR 6102 .B34 2005 Adored / | PR 6107 .G37 2006 Kill chain : | PR 9199.3 .S24 2005 Cast in Shadow | PR 9381.9 .M36 2007 Hawecha. a woman for all time / | PR 9381.9 .M36 2007 Hawecha. a woman for all time / | PR 9619.3 .R45 2005 Scarecrow / | PR 6068 .M49 2007 Eclipse / |
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Two hundred years ago, a girl was born into the Oromo tribe, which occupies land in southern Ethiopia as well as in the far north of Kenya. At a time when men ruled the world and young women had no authority whatsoever, Hawecha gradually rose to a position of unprecedented leadership and power. She became the most famous Prophetess of the Oromo people, saving them from famine, pestilence, war and death. Eventually, she became a part of their oral history. In 1986, a Catholic Mission near the Kenya/Ethiopia border founded the first school for Oromo girls in Kenya, using the story of Hawecha as their inspiration. Rhodia Mann was born in Kenya and studied Oromo culture under a highly-respected oral historian and mystic. She attended major Oromo ceremonies in northern Kenya, and also visited the Oromo in southern Ethiopia. Presented as a historical novel, the legend of Hawecha is used as a means to bring a fascinating and little-known culture to the wider world.
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