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What Should Starving Ethiopians do to Help Themselves?
Posted on September 5, 2011, 1:04 am By

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…

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What Should the World Do and Not Do To Save Ethiopians?
Posted on August 29, 2011, 1:17 am By

Alemayehu G. Mariam Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Time Magazine on its cover page asked two weighty questions about recurrent famines in Ethiopia: “Why are Ethiopians starving again?…

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Thugtatorship: The Highest Stage of African Dictatorship
Posted on February 28, 2011, 3:20 am By

Originally appeared in the Huffington Post on 02/28/2011 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/thugtatorship-the-highest_b_828864.html Thugogracy in Africa If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugogracy is a…

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