Description: In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the region.
Review Quotes: "In my considered opinion, Paths toward the Nation is an excellent scholarly work that tells the story of the evolution and struggle for survival of Eritrean nationalism .... Venosa's work represents a significant contribution to the study of Eritrea's national struggle for independence"--Bereket Habte Selassie, professor of African Studies and Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill