Understanding Ethiopia

Author : Frances M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319021805

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Understanding Ethiopia is a detailed description of Ethiopia’s geological story and enables non-specialist readers to share the author’s thrill at gaining a deeper insight into the processes which produced, and continue to shape, this amazing country. Ethiopia’s spectacular landscapes, ranging from mountains over 4500m high to salt plains 150m below sea level, are a reflection of the geological processes that formed the country. Indeed, its history and the historical sites, for which it is renowned, are largely determined by geology. Readers learn why and how Ethiopia’s geology is both unique and dynamic, as here the earth’s crust is in the process of breaking apart.

Author : Martin Plaut,Sarah Vaughan
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781805260639

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Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War by Martin Plaut,Sarah Vaughan Pdf

The war in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray began in November 2020. It inflicted more casualties than any other contemporary conflict in the world. It has also been among the least understood. The fighting and accompanying blockade led to an estimated 600,000 deaths – more than the number who died in the 1984-5 famine. International journalists were banned as the region was sealed off from the outside world by Ethiopian and Eritrean governments prosecuting a strategy designed to crush Tigray at almost any cost. Hatred of Tigrayans was stoked by senior advisers to Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed: they have called Tigrayans ‘weeds’ who must be uprooted, their place in history extinguished. Their language was reminiscent of that which preceded the genocide in Rwanda. The war was also orchestrated by Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki, who came to wield increasing influence over Ethiopian affairs. It drew in Somali troops as well as Eritrean forces. Peace agreements signed in November 2022 ended the worst of the violence, but without resolving the war’s underlying drivers, which continue to feed a tense and uncertain situation. This book provides the first clear explanation of the factors that led to the conflict, unravelling their roots in Ethiopia’s long and complex history. It describes the battles that were fought at such terrible cost and the immense suffering, particularly of women, who were brutally abused.

Author : Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Marion Gartler,Frederick H. Bair,George L. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : OCLC:8245522

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Understanding Ethiopia by Marion Gartler,Frederick H. Bair,George L. Hall Pdf

Author : Marion Gartler
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101466201X

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Understanding Ethiopia by Marion Gartler Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gérard Prunier,Éloi Ficquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849046176

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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 : Martin Plaut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : M. Girma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137269423

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Understanding Religion and Social Change in Ethiopia by M. Girma Pdf

Religiosity is one aspect without which Ethiopian society cannot be fully understood. This book aims to map out the terrain of the discourse in religion-social change nexus in Ethiopian using the notion of covenant as an interpretive tool.

Author : M. Girma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137269423

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Understanding Religion and Social Change in Ethiopia by M. Girma Pdf

Religiosity is one aspect without which Ethiopian society cannot be fully understood. This book aims to map out the terrain of the discourse in religion-social change nexus in Ethiopian using the notion of covenant as an interpretive tool.

Author : Daniel Mulugeta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : 0367193809

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The Everyday State in Africa by Daniel Mulugeta Pdf

This book offers a new understanding of the workings of the everyday Ethiopian state through foregrounding of the everyday politics of state-society relations. In a series of ethnographic cases, this book provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives and experiences of farmers, pastoralists, women, rural traders, shopkeepers, daily labourers, the rural youth, state functionaries and NGO workers living in two rural localities in different regions of Ethiopia. The book offers a rich, nuanced, and detailed ethnographic work while making distinctive theoretical contributions to the analysis of the state in Africa. Through a close look at the everyday forms of state power, the book foments Africanist understanding of Ethiopian politics, moving beyond the narrative of Ethiopian exceptionalism. In this sense, it foregrounds the Ethiopian experience as an important component of the politics of everyday life and state formation in Africa and makes important linkages between Ethiopia and politics in the rest of the continent that are often overlooked in Ethiopia-specific studies. Forming an 'Africanist' understanding of Ethiopian politics, this book will be of interest to scholars of politics, sociology, anthropology, international development, and state, society, and governance in Africa and Ethiopia.

Author : Yohannes Gedamu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : 50,7 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 : Teodros Kiros
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114265452

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Zara Yacob by Teodros Kiros Pdf

Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Classical Ethiopian philosophy and the modernity of Zara Yacob -- Ethiopia in the seventeenth century -- Zara Yacob: Philosopher of the heart -- Walda Heywat's transformation of Zara Yacob's philosophy -- Zara Yacob and the problematic of African philosophy -- Zara Yacob's place in the history of philosophy -- Conclusion: the rationality of the heart -- Appendix: The debates about the authenticity of Zara [Yacob's] treatise -- End notes.

Author : Valentina Peveri
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816541157

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The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia by Valentina Peveri Pdf

What is a beautiful garden to southern Ethiopian farmers? Anchored in the author’s perceptual approach to the people, plants, land, and food, The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia opens a window into the simple beauty and ecological vitality of an ensete garden. The ensete plant is only one among the many “unloved” crops that are marginalized and pushed close to disappearance by the advance of farming modernization and monocultural thinking. And yet its human companions, caught in a symbiotic and sensuous dialogue with the plant, still relate to each exemplar as having individual appearance, sensibility, charisma, and taste, as an epiphany of beauty and prosperity, and even believe that the plant can feel pain. Here a different story is recounted of these human-plant communities, one of reciprocal love at times practiced in an act of secrecy. The plot unfolds from the subversive and tasteful dimensions of gardening for subsistence and cooking in the garden of ensete through reflections on the cultural and edible dimensions of biodiversity to embrace hunger and beauty as absorbing aesthetic experiences in small-scale agriculture. Through this story, the reader will enter the material and spiritual world of ensete and contemplate it as a modest yet inspiring example of hope in rapidly deteriorating landscapes. Based on prolonged engagement with this “virtuous” plant of southwestern Ethiopia, this book provides a nuanced reading of the ensete ventricosum (avant-)garden and explores how the life in tiny, diverse, and womanly plots offers alternative visions of nature, food policy, and conservation efforts.

Author : Tadesse E.A.
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 worlds 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 todays 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.