Although the Horn of Africa was present in the early days of the Cahiers, it was absent from on the table of contents of half the issues of this review, notably during the period of revolutionary unrest. The same absence was not observed in other major Africanist journals, some of which are more specifically devoted to this region of Africa. The reason for this region’s disappearance lay in researchers’ attraction to countries in the former colonial empire, that were initially perceived as “easier” to approach. It was also a result of the gradual decline in use of the French language and French influence in Ethiopia following the Italian-Ethiopian war. Since the fall of the dictatorships there has been a renewal of interest in (and in publications on) the Horn of Africa, especially with the establishment of the Centre français des études éthiopiennes.