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Ethiopia: An African Political Miracle in the Making?

There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.” -Mahatma Gandhi Our ability to…

Ethiopia: I Remember the Slaughter of November 2005 in 2019!
Justice for the Victims of the Meles Massacres

Special Author’s Note: For years, I have memorialized the month of November by remembering the hundreds of innocent Ethiopians who lost their lives or were maimed and disfigured in the…

“OK, Hippos!”, Growled Ethiopia’s (Abo Shemanes) Cheetahs

… Ethiopia’s Cheetah Generation is the only generation that could rescue Ethiopia from the steel claws of T-TPLF tyranny and dictatorship. It is the only generation that can deliver Ethiopia…

DIGITAL PSYCHO-TERRORISTS’ INFOWARS ON ETHIOPIA: Fool Me Once, Shame on You. Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me!

Author’s Note: The information war (InfoWars) on Ethiopia today is in full swing. Lies, fake news and disinformation intended to bamboozle, hoodwink and confuse Ethiopians are spreading on social and…

“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…

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