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Posted on December 5, 2011, 1:05 am By almariam
Alemayehu G. Mariam Awramba Times: More Powerful Than Ten Thousand Bayonets “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets,” fretted Napoleon Bonaparte, dictator of France, as…
Posted on November 15, 2010, 12:23 am By almariam
Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 11/14/2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/ethiopia-profiles-in-jour_b_783372.html Honor Thy Independent Journalists I often write about the trials and tribulations of Ethiopia’s independent journalists, sometimes in tones of lamentation[1],…