The Republic of Djibouti (Ar. Jumhūriyyat Jībūtī) has been an independent state since 1977. More than the half of its population of approximately 700,000 to 900,000 lives in the capital city, Djibouti. Data on the ethnic structure of the country’s population are a contentious is…
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Danākil is the common Arabic name for the ʿAfar population of northeastern Africa. This is a plural form in Arabic derived from the name of an ʿAfar sub-group, the Dankali. From the seventh/thirteenth to the eleventh/seventeenth century, the Dankali ruled the coastal and hinterl…
The ʿAfar (written Qafár in their language, itself called ʿAfar) are a predominantly Muslim pastoral society of the arid lowlands of the Horn of Africa. The ʿAfar language belongs to the eastern branch of the Cushitic family. The ʿAfar are known as Dankali (pl. Danākil) in Arabi…
The archives and chanceries of Ethiopia date from the early Christian kingdom. 1. The Christian kingdom of Ethiopia until the modern period The practices of conservation of public records in Ethiopia are based mainly on older patterns of archive management in the Christian kingd…