The Zanzibar Chest Chronicles Continues

p.131

Denard was particularly fond of the scent of ‘ylang-ylang’ which was a plant used to make perfume.

Hartley recounts climbing a volcano in Comoros and looking down on the island: “the beauty made me catch my breath.”

p.132

Rwanda account.  ‘Kidogo’ means child soldier.  After arriving at the front line in Rwanda in Oct 1990 Hartley comments “This has to be the biggest story in the world.”

p.133

“No story is worth dying for.”  Jonathan Clayton to Aiden in Ethiopia, March 1991. 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article3765582.ece

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article752604.ece

Jonathan is Hartley’s first mentor in the journalism trade and from the links above, he is still at it. 

p.134

In speaking about the rebellion to overthrow the tyrant Mengistu Haile Mariam, he said they were inspired by (among other people) Orde Wingate, a British guerilla warfare expert who led the WWII invasion against the fascists in Abyssinia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orde_Wingate

Some interesting sounding books on the Wingate mentioned above. 

http://www.amazon.com/ORDE-WINGATE-Man-Genius-1903-1944/dp/184832572X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294802926&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Night-Wingate-Burma-Ethiopia/dp/0375500618/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294802948&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Irregular-Twentieth-Stackpole/dp/0811734978/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294802981&sr=1-4

p.135

Issayas Afeworki and Meles Zenawi come out on top amongst the rebels in Ethiopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaias_Afewerki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meles_Zenawi

“wat”  is a hot chile sauce eaten with pancakes of sour “injera” bread.  Injera is made out of the local “teff” grain.

p.137

Gibbon writes in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that Ethiopians had “slept a thousand years, forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten.”