Social Affairs
- 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…
Read More » - November 26, 2013
The Football-Politics Nexus in Ethiopia
Despite claims that they are independent of one another sports and politics are intricately intertwined, argues our columnist Taye Negussie…
Read More » - November 4, 2013
The ‘goddess’ of Market?
Hardcore economists believe the mystique power of the ‘invisible hand’ in the market, first conceived by Adam Smith, essentially creates…
Read More » - September 24, 2013
The ABCs of totalitarianism
Our columnist Taye Negussie (PhD) answers some of the perplexing questions many of us ponder: what is totalitarianism? What are…
Read More » - August 19, 2013
Understanding Ethiopia’s vicious cycle of authoritarianism
Taye Negussie (PhD) Despite its renowned long-history as a state, unfortunately Ethiopia has so far never been able to see…
Read More » - July 22, 2013
The predicament of Ethnic-federalism
Taye Negussie (PhD) In its two different past publications, this magazine came up with some research findings and critical views…
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