Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia

Author : Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849046183

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Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia by Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet Pdf

When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea) are largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature that is partial or propagandist. Moreover there have been few attempts to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the country's recent history, politics and culture that goes beyond the usual guidebook fare. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia seeks to do just that, presenting a measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the main features of this unique country, now building on the foundations of a magical and tumultuous past as it struggles to emerge in the modern world on its own terms.

Author : Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849042611

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Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia by Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet Pdf

"Seeks to dispel the myths and clichaes surrounding contemporary perceptions of Ethiopia by providing a rare overview of the country's recent history, politics and culture. Explores the unique features of this often misrepresented country as it strives to make itself heard in the modern world"-- Publisher description.

Author : Yohannes Gedamu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000411935

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The Politics of Contemporary Ethiopia by Yohannes Gedamu Pdf

This book investigates the role of ethnic federalism in Ethiopian politics, reflecting on a long history of division amongst the country’s political elites. The book argues that these patterns have enabled the resilience and survival of authoritarianism in the country, and have led to the failure of democratization. Ethnic conflict in Ethiopia stretches back to the country’s imperial history. Competing nationalisms begin to emerge towards the end of the imperial era, but were formalized by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from the 1990s onwards. Under the EPRDF, ethnicity and language classifications formed the main organizing principles for political parties and organizations, and the country’s new federal arrangement was also designed along ethnic fault lines. This book argues that this ethnic federal arrangement, and the continuation of an elite political culture are major factors in explaining the continuation of authoritarianism in Ethiopia. Focusing largely on the last 27 years under the EPRDF and on the political changes of the last few years, but also stretching back to historical narratives of ethnic grievances and division, this book is an important guide to the ethnic politics of Ethiopia and will be of interest to researchers of African politics, authoritarianism and ethnic conflict.

Author : Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 9781787382916

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Laying the Past to Rest by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe Pdf

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), founded as a small guerrilla movement in 1974, became the leading party in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). After decades of civil war, the EPRDF defeated the government in 1991, and has been the dominant party in Ethiopia ever since. Its political agenda of federalism, revolutionary democracy and a developmental state has been unique and controversial. Drawing on his own experience as a senior member of the TPLF/EPRDF leadership, and his unparalleled access to internal documentation, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe identifies the organizational, political and sociocultural factors that contributed to victory in the revolutionary war, particularly the Front's capacity for intellectual leadership. Charting its challenges and limitations, he analyses how the EPRDF managed the complex transition from a liberation movement into an established government. Finally, he evaluates the fate of the organization's revolutionary goals over its subsequent quarter-century in power, assessing the strengths and weaknesses the party has bequeathed to the country. Laying the Past to Rest is a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the genesis, successes and failings of the EPRDF's state-building project in contemporary Ethiopia, from a uniquely authoritative observer.

Author : Teshale Tibebu
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 1569020019

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The Making of Modern Ethiopia by Teshale Tibebu Pdf

A socio-cultural reconstruction of modern,Ethiopia's social history, that will have far,reaching repercussions in Ethiopianist discourse.

Author : Tadesse E.A.
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781452526072

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Ethiopia by Tadesse E.A. Pdf

Ethiopia has experienced decades of turmoil. The founding fathers created Ethiopia to have prosperity, to have love for each other, and to have unity, but those who were taken aboard by force knew nothing, saw nothing, loved nothing, and only united to sort out all those goals through fighting. In Ethiopia, author Tadesse E.A. offers a profile of Ethiopia, one of the world’s oldest and most complex countries. Part history book and part book of memoirs, it provides deep insight into the country. Based on Tadesse E.A.’s strong academic background, vast international experience, and identity as an Ethiopian, he presents a look at Ethiopia in a contemporary way. He • shares his life experiences from childhood to adulthood in an unfinished country; • deals with the forces of the past; • highlights the challenges of the people and their struggle during the imperial era; • discusses two long-running governments and the national election process; and • offers insight into the nonstop struggles and challenges during the transition period. Ethiopia melds the background of the past and the making of the present. It helps in the understanding of yesterday, which warrants many questions of its own, and today’s mood, the uncertainty, and the central fact of the ongoing fractures between Ethiopians. It shares the journey of Tadesse E.A.’s life and what his country and its people have meant to him.

Author : Terrence Lyons
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 1626377987

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The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics by Terrence Lyons Pdf

Author : Martin Plaut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190694760

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Understanding Eritrea by Martin Plaut Pdf

The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean. Still they flee, to avoid permanent military service and a future without hope. As the United Nations reported: 'Thousands of conscripts are subjected to forced labor that effectively abuses, exploits and enslaves them for years.' Eritreans fought for their freedom from Ethiopia for thirty years, only to have their revered leader turn on his own people. Independent since 1993, the country has no constitution and no parliament. No budget has ever been published. Elections have never been held and opponents languish in jail. International organizations find it next to impossible to work in the country. Nor is it just a domestic issue. By supporting armed insurrection in neighboring states it has destabilized the Horn of Africa. Eritrea is involved in the Yemeni civil war, while the regime backs rebel movements in Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti. This book tells the untold story of how this tiny nation became a world pariah.

Author : John H. Spencer
Publisher : Tsehai Publishers
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1599070006

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Ethiopia at Bay by John H. Spencer Pdf

... what people are saying about this book ...'A marvelous recounting of Ethiopian and world history during those years. Mandatory reading for anyone interested in Third World relations and certainly for anyone who seeks to understand contemporary Ethiopian or Horn of Africa affairs.'?Foreign Service Journal?A significant primary source in its first hand account by a meticulously observant insider.'?Foreign Affairs?Commands attention and respect. John Spencer's personal, candid, and basically reliable record will have an honored place in the contemporary annals of that tortured country.'?Times Literary Supplement?Spencer is one of the very few living people in a position to describe Ethiopia's efforts to survive during those years.'?Library Journal?Spencer was privy to many important decisions. Of particular interest is his account of Haile Sellassie's disenchantment with the U.S.'?Publisher's Weekly?After the hard fate which befell the Emperor and his notables, Spencer is maybe the only one of the old regime's key persons still alive. There is hardly a single page one would want to miss.'?Sture Linner in Svenska Dagbladet?I found Ethiopia at Bay intensely interesting, sad and even tragic in the Greek mode. What a series of missed opportunities, anachronistic colonial arrogances, and western shortsightedness! The book would be enormously instructive to students of international relations generally.'?Lincoln Gordon, former President, Johns Hopkins University?Valuable indeed, Especially significant is Spencer's cogent analysis of the Emperor himself. Recommended for college, university, and larger public libraries.'?Choice.

Author : Elizabeth W. Giorgis
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780821446539

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Modernist Art in Ethiopia by Elizabeth W. Giorgis Pdf

If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia’s inimitable historical condition—its independence save for five years under Italian occupation—mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia—the first book-length study of the topic—Elizabeth W. Giorgis recognizes that her home country’s supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader colonial legacy. She uses the evolution of modernist art in Ethiopia to open up the intellectual, cultural, and political histories of it in a pan-African context. Giorgis explores the varied precedents of the country’s political and intellectual history to understand the ways in which the import and range of visual narratives were mediated across different moments, and to reveal the conditions that account for the extraordinary dynamism of the visual arts in Ethiopia. In locating its arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Modernist Art in Ethiopia details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in philosophical and ideological narratives of modernity. The result is profoundly innovative work—a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.

Author : Donald Lewis Donham
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0852552696

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Marxist Modern by Donald Lewis Donham Pdf

This is a cultural history of the Ethiopian revolution that highlights the role of modernist Marxist ideas as they interacted with local, mostly rural, traditions.

Author : Brian J. Yates
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469807

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The Other Abyssinians by Brian J. Yates Pdf

Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.

Author : Gebru Tareke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300156157

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The Ethiopian Revolution by Gebru Tareke Pdf

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the 20th century. Here, Tareke brings to life the leading personalities in the domestic political struggles, strategies of the warring parties international actors, and key battles.

Author : Bahru Zewde
Publisher : London : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : UOM:39015031808960

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A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 by Bahru Zewde Pdf

Author : Maria Evangelatou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1463205783

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A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses Through Form and Ritual by Maria Evangelatou Pdf

An exploration of the ways in which crosses reflect and shape ideas and practices in Ethiopian culture: from religious values and rituals to magic and apocalyptic beliefs, and from individual identities to socio-political structures and power relations.