Between the hammer and the anvil: Jawar’s interview

While I found many interesting and thought-provoking points in Jawar’s interview, I could not dismiss the uneasiness I felt throughout my reading. At first, I couldn’t pinpoint the reason for the uneasiness, but as my reading advanced, it gradually surfaced.…
The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Revolution of 1974

In the reactions to several interviews I recently gave to different YouTube videos, I have witnessed a number of misunderstandings that need to be straightened out, with the exclusion, as one would expect, of the deliberate distortions coming from the…
Abiy’s Achilles’ Heel

Nation-building is the process by which peoples with diverse origins, histories, languages, and cultures and living under one political rule develop over time common interests, goals, and values that are sufficient enough to make them want to continue to live…
Quo Vadis Ethiopia?

Post-TPLF or Phase One? Since Abiy Ahmed’s election to a premiership, constant provocation and insubordination have been the hallmark of the TPLF’s dealings with the federal government. That these defiant and provocative behaviors were designed to create a political instability…