Rambo the Abyssinian

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In this work, Hajjaj Jaber seeks to restore the reputation of a Harari woman who accompanied Arthur Rimbaud in his last years in Abyssinia, without the French poet mentioning his lover with a single word in his many letters to his mother, and thus she was omitted from the history books.
Hajji gives the Harari woman a name, a voice, a history, and a memory, and thus gives us the opportunity to see Rimbaud from the perspective of the Ethiopians, as if he is turning the picture around, pushing Rimbaud to the margins and bringing the Ethiopian lover into the heart of the story by narrating some of what happened and much of what did not happen.
In addition to the truncated love stories and the overlapping narrative paths, the text deals with Harar, the city of coffee and khat when it was the African Mecca, forbidden to non-Muslims to enter, and around which tales were woven that enticed travelers from everywhere at a time when the great powers were reshaping the Horn of Africa region.