Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Transliteration
- Note on the Ethiopian Calendar
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Map 1 Ethiopia 1900–1950
- Map 2 Burma 1898–1919
- Introduction
- 1 Youth & education
- 2 Return to Ethiopia (1896–1901)
- 3 Campaigning in the Ogaden & return to Burma (1901–1907)
- 4 Transitions in life
- 5 A man of substance in Ethiopia & Burma
- 6 Return of a progressive to Addis Ababa (1919–1924)
- 7 An increased pace of modernization (1924–1930)
- 8 International diplomacy, education & recruitment
- 9 Governor of a model province, Chärchär (1930–1935)
- 10 Ethiopian ambassador to the Court of St. James (1935–1936)
- 11 London & India
- 12 Ethiopia
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Campaigning in the Ogaden & return to Burma (1901–1907)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Transliteration
- Note on the Ethiopian Calendar
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Map 1 Ethiopia 1900–1950
- Map 2 Burma 1898–1919
- Introduction
- 1 Youth & education
- 2 Return to Ethiopia (1896–1901)
- 3 Campaigning in the Ogaden & return to Burma (1901–1907)
- 4 Transitions in life
- 5 A man of substance in Ethiopia & Burma
- 6 Return of a progressive to Addis Ababa (1919–1924)
- 7 An increased pace of modernization (1924–1930)
- 8 International diplomacy, education & recruitment
- 9 Governor of a model province, Chärchär (1930–1935)
- 10 Ethiopian ambassador to the Court of St. James (1935–1936)
- 11 London & India
- 12 Ethiopia
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
There followed a unique period in Wärqenäh's life, which happened quite by chance. After Emperor Menilek stopped paying his salary, he packed up to return to Burma. Ras Mäkonnen, the emperor's cousin and ruler of the rich eastern Ethiopian province of Harar, raised the possibility of his staying and working in his province, but after Wärqenäh arrived in Harar that prospect slowly faded. Then fortuitously, he was asked to treat a sick Englishman recently arrived in Harar, a Major A. Hanbury-Tracy. Hanbury-Tracy shortly thereafter asked him to join a joint British-Ethiopian military expedition against Sayyid Muhammad Abdille Hasan, known incorrectly to the British as ‘the Mad Mullah’ (while Sayyid is an honorific title for a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad). Wärqenäh promptly agreed to serve as a medical doctor with the expedition, once he had been assured that he would be officially seconded from his position in Burma and paid an equivalent salary. Wärqenäh always tried to be very careful when it came to his salary and future pension. Before describing his participation in the First Expedition against Muhammad Abdille Hasan in 1901, it would perhaps, be useful to give some background on Ethiopian involvement in Harar and the Ogaden, Ethiopia's easternmost provinces and the frontier with the Somalis of the Horn of Africa.
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- A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian NationalistThe Life and Times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr. Charles Martin, pp. 35 - 50Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012