Day: August 18, 2014

Two Tales, or One?: On Ethiopia’s Federalism and South Africa’s Apartheid

By Tsegaye R Ararssa* 1.     Introduction What is the story of the Ethiopian federal experiment? What stories does it tell? And what stories can be told about it? Feeding from and into the ever polarized and polarizing ‘debate’ on Ethiopia’s politics, Dr Taye Negussie recently argued that the Ethiopian federal arrangement is synonymous with apartheid’s ‘racial federation’. In a similar…

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