Month: December 2017
- Africa
Opinion: A fresh start to up the ante: The Decolonizing debate and Ethiopia’s Place in Western imagination of the “Other”
Kindeneh Endeg, (PhD), for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 19/2017 – I have followed Hewan’s call for the need to decolonize Ethiopian studies and the follow up discussions it generated with interest. The reactions to Hewan’s call are a far cry from anything that inspires confidence about the urgency of the project. (Please see follow up opinion pieces here,…
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News: Mounting death toll, violence pushes Ethiopia to the brink of security crisis
Addis Abeba, December 18/2017 – Close to eighty people were killed (by official accounts) within just one week in various places located in east and west Hararghe administrative zones of the Oromia regional state, in the eastern part of Ethiopia, pushing the country to the brink of security crisis. The latest spate of violence began on December 14, barely…
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Feature: Displaced Ethiopians: Escaped but trapped in a bleak prospect
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, December 15/2017 – September 2017, the start of the Ethiopian New Year of 2010, had a devastating beginning, the level of which was previously unseen for at least two and a half decades. More than half a million innocent Ethiopians (mostly from the ethnic Oromo background – and to a smaller extent Ethiopian Somalis) were…
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News: Save the Children says helping Ethiopia as it faces the worst drought in 50 years
Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, December 13/2017 – With the drought and displacements happening en mass in the East African countries the last few years, Save the Children said its main support remained critical to the drought affected areas and refugee camps across the Ethiopia. In his presentation on the works of Save the Children in the last five years,…
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News: Record number of jailed journalists for second year, CPJ census finds
Turkey, China, Egypt continue to top list New York, December 13, 2017 -For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers–Turkey, China, and Egypt–into improving the bleak climate for press freedom, the Committee to Protect…
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Opinion: Questions, concerns and a critique on the decolonization of Ethiopian knowledge
Abadir Ibrahim, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 12/2017 – In an opinion piece published on a previous issue of Addis Standard, Hewan Semon proposed a conversation on the decolonization of Ethiopian studies. As much as I would have liked to take this conversation into my areas of interest (human rights, democracy and the modern Ethiopian/African state) I will…
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News: Number of civilians killed by security forces in Chelenko climbs to fifteen, several wounded; two students killed in Wolega Unv.
Two students were also killed last night at Shambu campus of Wolega university as student protests continued in several universities Addis Standard staffs Addis Abeba, December 12/2017 – The number of civilians killed by security forces in Chelenko town, Meta woreda in east Haraghe zone of the oromia regional state has risen to 15; more than a dozen…
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News: Ethiopia supreme court reduces jail terms of Ethiopian Muslims including two journalists who were sentenced on terrorism charges
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, December 11/2017 – The Ethiopian federal supreme court has today reduced the jail terms of 20 defendants who were accused and sentenced to various years in jail after having been charged of terrorism related offenses. On January 03, 2017, the federal High court 19the criminal bench has sentenced all but one of the defendants under…
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Opinion: On decolonizing Ethiopian studies: Decolonize the decolonizers First
Abinet Asfaw, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 08/2017 – I would like to make a simple critique of Hewan Solomon’s article “Decolonizing Ethiopian Studies”. I find the article vacuous and symptomatic of what it seeks to dismantle. Thus, even as it raises a significant issue (“the importance of making Ethiopian languages and ideas dominant in the field of…
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Opinion: On decolonizing Ethiopian studies: Methodological nationalism as bad as Eurocentrism
Hailegabriel G. Feyissa, for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, December 04/2017 – I am writing this short essay in response to Hewan Semon’s rather interesting and thought-provoking opinion piece ‘Decolonizing Ethiopian Studies’. I am jumping on her offer for a conversation on issues pertaining to the decolonization of the field of Ethiopian Studies. Although I am not someone with a…
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