Addis Ababa Noir
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MAAZA MENGISTE is a novelist and essayist who was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Creative Capital. Her debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the ten best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, and other publications. Her work can be found in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Granta, the Guardian, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and BBC, among other places. She was a writer on the documentary projects Girl Rising and The Invisible City: Kakuma. Her second novel, The Shadow King, was published in September 2019.
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Introduction
Part I: Past Hauntings"Kind Stranger" by Meron Hadero (Lideta)
"A Double-Edged Inheritance" by Hannah Giorgis (Shiromeda)
"Ostrich" by Rebecca Fisseha (National Palace)
"Dust, Ash, Flight" by Maaza Mengiste (Mercato)
Part II: Translations of Grief
"Father Bread" by Mikael Awake (Kechené)
"The Blue Shadow" by Mahtem Shiferraw (Yerer Ber)
"A Night in Bela Sefer" by Sulaiman Addonia (Bela Sefer)
Part III: Madness Descends
"Insomnia" by Lelissa Girma (Haya Hulet)
"Of the Poet and the Café" by Girma T. Fantaye (Beherawi Theater)
"Under the Minibus Ceiling" by Bewketu Seyoum (Arat Kilo)
"Of Buns and Howls" by Adam Reta (Addis Ababa West)
Part IV: Police and Thieves
"Kebele ID" by Linda Yohannes (CMC)
"None of Your Business" by Solomon Hailemariam (French Legation)
"Agony of the Congested Heart" by Teferi Nigussie Tafa (Meskel Square)