Alemayehu G. Mariam In 1987 when Time Magazine featured a famine-stricken Ethiopian mother on its cover page, it failed to ask the most important question of all: What should Ethiopians do…
Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 2/20/2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/out-of-touch-in-the-horn_b_825795.html The Berlin Conference of 2009 In 1884, the Berlin Conference was convened by the European imperial powers to carve out colonial…
Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 1/31/2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/after-the-fall-of-african_b_816140.html After the Fall from the Wall What happens to Africa after the mud walls of dictatorship come tumbling down and the…
