Author : HARARI PEOPLE REGIONAL STATE CULTURE, HERITAGE AND TOURISM BUREAU
YEAR : 2015
……This book presents the history of Harar and the Harari people, from ancient times to the 1990s aims to:
o Offer a general overview of the origin of the Harari people;
o Narrate the kaleidoscopic political history of Harari people and the City of Harar from early times up to the 1990’s;
o Explain the historical dynamics of Harar’s sophisticated economy;
o Analyse the time tested social organizations of the Harari people;
o Discuss the rich cultural values of the Harari people, and
o Elaborate the contribution of the Harari civilization to Ethiopia and its influence an Empire and City-State in eastern Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa…..
