Yayne Abäba is a short novel by the Ethiopian writer, politician, and onetime Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Makonnen Endelkachew.
The story features the adventures of a young girl named Yayne Abäba, which means "flower of my eye".
There is not scholarly consensus on when the story was first published, and its first publication date is variously reported as 1945, 1947, 1948, or 1955.
[6][7][8][9] In the story, Abäba, an adolescent girl of the Amhara people, is trafficked into slavery.
There is a fantastical dream sequence in which she employs a microscope to look behind the superficialities of the world to see the frightening true realities that lie beneath.