Yearly Archives: 2019
“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review, (Part II)- Working Through Political Entropy in Ethiopia With Medemer

“Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Laureate 2019, 280 pp. (October 2019) Reviewer’s Note: Part I of my book review on the…

“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review in Two Parts (Part I) 

“Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, 2019 Nobel Peace Laureate, 280 pp. (October 2019) Part I — The “philosophy” of “Medemer” Reviewer’s Note: This review…

Peace in Ethiopia, Eritrea and All Africa: Congratulations PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afewerki!

The guns silenced, the suffering people of Ethiopia and Eritrea may now speak, shout out, that the two countries hereafter “shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into…

Innovating the Developmental State Through Homegrown Economic Reform?

This op-ed piece appeared in Fortune, “the largest English weekly in Ethiopia” on October 13, 2019. “Innovating the Developmental State Through Homegrown Economic Reform?” CLICK HERE: Home Grown Econ Reform Fortune or…

Open Letter to Susan Hypocrit E Rice: People Who Live in Glass Houses Should Not Throw Stones

Lo and behold! The woman who laughed at the desecration of democracy in Ethiopia now rises to defend it in America Last week, Susan Elizabeth Rice, President Obama’s former National…

The AMAZING Taye Bogale: A Force of Nature on the Ethiopian Intellectual Landscape

Battle of the social media troglodytes and the intellectual In this commentary, I salute and pay tribute to Taye Bogale. It is hard for me to describe Taye Bogale, whom…

SECOND Call for Volunteers to Join the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund’s Project Review Team (PRT)

When EDTF first issued a call for proposals in July 2019, we expected to receive two or three dozen proposals. We did not expect to receive some 300 plus proposals…

Xeno(Afro)Phobia in South Africa, Ethnophobia in Ethiopia?

In the interest of full disclosure, I have a special place in my heart for Nelson Mandela and South Africa. That is understandable because Mandela in his autobiography, “The Long…

The Peace Dividend of Abiy Ahmed’s Global Diplomacy in Ethiopia

Africa’s First Responder for Peace, Ethiopia’s Globetrotter for Investment and Hardest Working Man in Politics We are beginning to see hard evidence of PM Abiy Ahmed’s return on investments in…

9/11- A Date That Shall Live in Infamy in America and in Glory in Ethiopia and Eritrea

Author’s Note: Today, September 11 (12), 2019 is Meskerem1, Ethiopian New Year’s Day (Enqutatash “gift of jewels”). I wish all Ethiopians a HAPPY, PEACEFUL AND PROSPEROUS MEDEMER NEW YEAR. Ethiopia…

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