Claude Sumner

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Claude Sumner who is "a Canadian by Birth, and an Ethiopian by choice" -to use his words-[citation needed] was the first English-speaking scholar to introduce the thoughts of Zara Yaqob to the philosophical world. Sumner undertook the task of comparing Zara Yaqob with Descartes on methods of thinking. For Sumner, modern philosophy began in Ethiopia with Zara Yaqob at the same time as in England and France.


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