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For 22-year-old Tsahai no year was so free, so filled with hope as this one. Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army.
They had need of her, she heard, in the village of Lekamti. Traveling with few formalities, Princess Tsahai, daughter of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, daughter of the Lion of Judah and the most modern of women in one of the last black kingdoms, went to Lekamti. There among the sick she fell ill, and there last week she died.