Nun and lesbianism: A New Translation of an Ethiopian Manuscript Sheds Light on African Women’s Anticolonialism
By Allison Miller, Historians Asked how she came to translate the life story of Walatta Petros, a 17th-century Ethiopian woman saint, Wendy Belcher jokes that the story takes a while to tell. She’s right. Just published by Princeton University Press,The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros, written by a monk in 1672, which Belcher…