Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / The purpose of this thesis is to study the press in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is an ancient kingdom, but very little is known about her, still less about her press. Probably there is not much to be known, for the press is still in its infancy, and source material is scarce and fragmentary. The justification for this kind of study lies in the paradoxical truth that since so little is known, so much more has to be written. An attempt of this nature has to start somewhere with the hope that the beginning would not be the end. [TRUNCATED]