Social Affairs
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December 14, 2012
The peril of ‘Economism’
How many of us know that this rather poor continent, Africa, is ironically one of the biggest markets for…
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November 19, 2012
The morphology of ‘bad governance’
“Bad governance is an equal sharing of misery.” –Shiv Khera Taye Negussie(PHD) Too often, oppressors in unjust, repressive, unaccountable and…
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October 2, 2012
How the legacy of a political leader ought to be viewed
A fairly realistic assessment of the legacies of a departing statesman ought to analytically disaggregate individual and public personalities of…
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September 24, 2012
The delusion of ‘radical’ identity politics
“Identity is a matter of setting up similarities and differences between people” Taye Negussie (PHD) Since the end of the…
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August 8, 2012
Ruling through ‘soft-power’
Ethiopia is having more and more people whose self-imposed enslavement resulting from a naïve, uncritical, wholesale adoption of Western…
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July 17, 2012
How bad developmental state ruins good governance
The economy of a developmental state may grow at unprecedented pace but it often ruins democracy and good governance …
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June 11, 2012
Listening to people – first
Effective involvement of people in the process of policy and legislative development is in the interest of both the government…
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May 9, 2012
Questioning the logic of “international agendas”!
A just world takes more than a mere change of “economic design” and “paradigm shift” on how to do economic…
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May 8, 2012
Rationality in technological choices
The use of technology helps us ease the burdens of doing things the hard way. But it is more meaningful…
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March 1, 2012
The toll of ‘moral underdevelopment’
“…moral development is highly informative in making sense of what is going on around us today. As evident in our…
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