A book that sets the record straight on the TPLF war in Ethiopia.
A book with never-shared-before stories from the war zones and the “second front” of the struggle against the digital woyane and the fight against Western media bias.
A book with sourced quotes and appendices of shocking documents proving collusion with the TPLF and the cover-up by media, human rights groups, and the UN of TPLF war crimes.
The time for lies is over. Time for the whole truth to come out.
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What you have below—way at the end for download—is a book. I wish it had a dustjacket and pages. I wish it could be in stores for you to pick up and browse through at your leisure. I’m a fossil, and I began my writing career on typewriters, so to me, a book is always a physical thing. I’ve had eighteen of them put out by publishers big and small, and I hope to get more.
This one’s different because for the time being, for right now, this book can’t be released by a regular publisher. There will be idiots out there who guffaw and snipe at a self-published product, which is both asinine and hypocritical—some in their ranks are still trying desperately right now to get media attention over a think tank report. Yep, that institute essentially “published” its report online, a document that only backs up the tired narrative that the TPLF has pushed for more than two years (snore).
Of course, for those who look down their nose at any self-publishing, I will simply point them in the direction of the newsletters produced by legendary investigative journalists George Seldes and the ones by I.F. Stone, who each knew that the establishment would refuse to print their stuff. Howard Fast, author Spartacus—the basis for the blockbuster Hollywood film—had to self-publish his novel because as he put it, “no commercial publisher, due to the political temper of the times, would undertake the publication or distribution of the book.”
Being naïve, I had to discover for myself that almost any book that portrays Africans in a positive light is inherently “political,” even if the politics never get spoken aloud.
It was an uphill battle to get Prevail published. I was told, quite often by white editors in New York, that “there was no market for it.” I would reply, “Really? So, Black people don’t read?” They had no response to this—but they didn’t change their decision. It was an uphill battle to get The Gifts of Africa published, and in a typical fashion for which many an author can relate, there was virtually no marketing support for it.
So, imagine a book about Africa that also defies almost every single Western media outlet and presents how they’ve been incompetent or outright lied; a book that has evidence that shows Amnesty, International, Human Rights Watch, and even the United Nations were in on a conspiracy to overthrow a nation. Yeah, who would buy that?
Hopefully, you will. There will be those who crow that (Shock! Horror! Clutch your pearls!) I am charging a small amount for this digital book. Yeah, I like to buy groceries. I like to pay rent. I am not charging the $20+ expected for Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughn’s comical novel, Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War After Your Lobotomy, or the $30+ in hardcover charged for Tom Gardner’s The Abiy Project: What I Scribbled On My Extended Vacation After I Got My Ass Kicked Out of Ethiopia.
Instead, I’m asking for a small sum. Yep, I’m simply counting on the goodwill of those who support my work and still believe in it and are willing to throw me a bit of compensation. And being cynical, I know that it’ll be hilariously easy to download the book and share it, thus skirting this paywall, but that was never the point in writing it. Writers like being paid, but they like even more being read.
Yes, technically, you’re paying for a monthly subscription to get to the book, but okay, if you don’t want the subscription, you can always unsubscribe, and keep the book anyway. Your choice. Hopefully, you’ll want to stick around.