Social Affairs
- April 6, 2015
Ethiopia’s current election : ‘Eliminating the contestant ahead of the match’
Taye Negussie(PhD) It could well be said that literally no election had been completed happily to the minimal satisfaction…
Read More » - April 2, 2015
The alienation of intellect
Taye Negussie (PhD) Marx’s quite famous theory of the alienation of labor holds in the industrialized capitalist commodity production…
Read More » - February 17, 2015
‘Old habits die hard’
Taye Negussie (PhD) Very few would doubt that the period between the late 1980’s and early 1990s was indeed…
Read More » - January 5, 2015
The toll of “Aristocratic Spirit” in academia
Taye Negussie (PhD) Plato’s Academia, founded around 300 B.C in classical Greek, is widely thought to be the precursor of…
Read More » - January 2, 2015
Measuring the immeasurable: The fallacies of quantifying “Human Development”
Taye Negussie(PhD) With the view to address the weakness of the traditional economic oriented Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measurement that…
Read More » - November 28, 2014
Politicking alone
Taye Negussie (PhD) As of late we are witnessing the ruling Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) busily engag¬ing itself…
Read More » - November 21, 2014
The power of “the unexpected small touches”: Leveraging ‘soft skills’ for business success
Taye Negussie (PhD) “….I could talk forever about the swimming pool, fantastic views, and the morning breakfast. Honestly, though I…
Read More » - August 25, 2014
The scramble for legitimacy
Taye Negussie (PhD) Ever since its assumption of power in 1991, the current ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Front (EPRDF) has…
Read More » - 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?…
Read More » - July 25, 2014
When ‘Fighters of Poverty’ get it wrong
Taye Negussie (PhD) In a recent piece to Project Syndicate, ‘Why Jeffrey Sachs Matters’, the renowned Microsoft founder Bill Gates,…
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