{"id":277907,"date":"2019-06-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEJd-gNzUkVpDmQnsjyzNerUqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjMqjCjCJhZwBMKDUywM?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:34","slug":"a-new-yorker-essay-poorly-mapped-returned-to-addis-ababa-through-family-and-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277907","title":{"rendered":"A New Yorker essay, \u201cPoorly Mapped,\u201d returned to Addis Ababa through family and memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its June 10, 2019, issue The New Yorker published \u201cPoorly Mapped,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A New Yorker essay, \u201cPoorly Mapped,\u201d returned to Addis Ababa through family and memory\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and diaspora literature archive, the New Yorker essay dates one carefully written return narrative from Ethiopia\u2019s American diaspora.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/06\/10\/poorly-mapped\">The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly Mapped&nbsp;&nbsp;The New YorkerOn my first day in Ethiopia, my aunt Aster asked me not to leave the house. \u201cStay home,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t go outside alone.\u201d Her father, my grandfather, had built the house forty years earlier, shortly after his e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ain","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755015,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277907\/revisions\/755015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}