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It was Only Yesterday... by Meherete-Selassie, Hannah Mariam is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is It was Only Yesterday... about?

"Hannah Mariam Meherete-Selassie's book, It was Only Yesterday ... is an insider's story about life as a royal teenager and growing up in the Jubilee Palace in Africa's first royal family under the protective eyes of her great grand-father Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lion of Judah, and Elect of God. In February 1974, her privileged life comes to an abrupt end with the advent of a bloody upheaval which overthrows her great grand-father's government and lands her mother and close family in a rotting Communist jail. By this time Hannah Mariam has fled to United Kingdom where she is granted status as a refugee. Interested in writing from a very young age, her first book It was Only Yesterday offers unique insights about the hardship she faced growing up in a new setting and how she effectively managed change and uncertainty. It was Only Yesterday is a delightful account of her interactions with friends and family in the backdrop of the intricate world of imperial protocol and palace politics. The book's narrative is based on diaries kept over the past forty-three years, a collection of family photographs, informal chats and interviews, generational stories, and researching

Author

Meherete-Selassie, Hannah Mariam

Publisher

AuthorHouse; Authorhouse

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781546263357

Rating

4.7 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14