For a long time, the historiography of foreigners in Ethiopia relied mainly on European written sources such as travel accounts and diplomatic correspondences or reports. For decades, its perspective was to underline the part played by various national community in the modernization of Ethiopia, in the segmented logic of community studies. Exploring the problems faced by the case study of the Armenians in a long 20th century, this lecture will emphasize the need for a renewed historiography of foreigners in Ethiopia paying close attention to memories, alternative sources and the making of identities as a social and historical process in an Ethiopian context.
With Dr. Boris ADJEMIAN Historian, Affiliated to the Institut des Mondes africains (IMAF, Institute of African Studies)
