Social Affairs
- 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,…
Read More » - June 25, 2014
A tale of two federations
Taye Negussie (PhD) Following the general election of 1948, the Afrikaners dominated National Party officially legislated a racially segregated system…
Read More » - May 13, 2014
The Shaky premise of authoritarianism
Taye Negussie (PhD) Since we ordinarily associate authoritarianism with a political system bent on subjugating and repressing its subjects…
Read More » - April 22, 2014
A ‘Democratic Front’ at odds with democracy
Taye Negussie (PhD) Few rhetoric terms have so pervaded as the term democracy in the political discourse of the Ethiopian…
Read More » - March 21, 2014
Defending Ethiopia’s Developmental Statism: Moralizing immorality
Taye Negussie (PhD) Recently, this magazine has been publishing a series of articles debating against and for developmental statism that…
Read More » - March 5, 2014
Seclusion of the intelligentsia behind the ‘Cult of Scientificism’
It is high time that the intelligentsia renews the age-old spirit of public intellectual by recovering its connections with the…
Read More » - January 5, 2014
Celebrating the ‘Otherness’?
Our columnist Taye Negussie (PhD) argues that at the root of EPRDF’s ethno-centric ideology is the dubious assumption which conjures…
Read More » - December 20, 2013
The ‘Colonization of Mind’
Our conventional education system, modeled after the West and which we often take-for-granted and leave unexamined, could indeed well be…
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