In its June 10, 2019, issue The New Yorker published “Poorly Mapped,” an essay in which the writer returned to a family house in Ethiopia after decades away and found relatives urging caution about walking alone in Addis Ababa.
The piece braided personal memory of the Derg years, diaspora return, and the feeling that old maps of the city and of family authority no longer matched the ground.
Kept as culture and diaspora literature archive, the New Yorker essay dates one carefully written return narrative from Ethiopia’s American diaspora.
Sources: The New Yorker