About almariam
Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino. His teaching areas include American constitutional law, civil rights law, judicial process, American and California state governments, and African politics. He has published two volumes on American constitutional law, including American Constitutional Law: Structures and Process (1994) and American Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (1998). He is the Senior Editor of the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, a leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia. For the last several years, Prof. Mariam has written weekly web commentaries on Ethiopian human rights and African issues that are widely read online. He played a central advocacy role in the passage of H.R. 2003 (Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007) in the House of Representatives in 2007. Prof. Mariam practices in the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. In 1998, he argued a major case in the California Supreme Court involving the right against self-incrimination in People v. Peevy, 17 Cal. 4th 1184, which helped clarify longstanding Miranda rights issues in criminal procedure in California. For several years, Prof. Mariam had a weekly public channel public affairs television show in Southern California called “In the Public Interest”. Prof. Mariam received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984, and his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 1988.
Ethiopia Africa’s brightest gem
Forty million for hours stood and gifted you a democratic system.
It was the 4th of October a day I shall always remember
Like the full moon rising over the African night
Ethiopia rose with the dawn’s early light.
Ethiopia greeted the dawn of democracy
Laid waste her enemies’ conspiracy to restore a thugocracy.
Ethiopia shall rise to the summit of national unity in diversity
Bury deep the politics of identity
Build up prosperity over the graveyard of poverty.
Ethiopia, Land of the Wise
Your people shall come together to organize, mobilize and galvanize.
Ethiopians shall rise to humanize, harmonize and compromise
In an all-inclusive Peace Enterprise
No Ethiopian shall be left behind, and Ethiopia shall rise!
Ethiopia shall rise by the sinews of her youth
Armed to the teeth with nothing but the truth.
Marching to the song of Medemer
Day and night, winter and summer
Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation, fighter and peacemaker.
Ethiopians shall stand in the noonday sun tall and proud
Listening to billions of trees make sound.
Leaves singing, “Ethiopia today. Ethiopia tomorrow Ethiopia forever.”
Let’s rock and roll among the trees, let’s Ethiopia discover together
Our home, sweet home, let no one put asunder.
Ethiopia shall rise with the GERD’s bright lights
Prosper and reach magnificent new heights.
With GERD burning bright, all Ethiopians shall finally gain their sight
Ethiopia hands outstretched stands under the shadow of Divine Might
Ethiopia shall rise, Rise, RISE and SHINE SPARKLING BRIGHT!
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