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The World Bankliars in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The World Bank of Liars
I have been wrangling with the World Bank of Lies, Damned Lies and Statislies in Ethiopia for the past few years.
I have been trying to keep them honest. I once offered a deal to The World Bank: If they stopped lying...
The TPLF Hired a Rubbish Writer to Defend it against Prof. Al Mariam [By LJDemissie]
With an open mind, I read an article titled “TEACHING ALMARIAIM HOW TO WRITE” on the Aiga Forum website, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front’s (TPLF’s) mouthpiece. The article was written by Yenieta A, who claimed that Ethiopian...
Dare to Dream With Me About the New Ethiopia in 2017 [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Author’s Note: I get to celebrate New Year twice every year. The first on September 11, the Ethiopian New Year. The second on January...
Ethiopia 2016 in Review: The Year of Perseverance! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In July 2016, I completed my tenth year of uninterrupted Monday Commentaries (and sometimes up to 4 commentaries) a week. Some have amiably characterized my commentaries as “Monday Sermons”.
My first commentary (in the...
President Trump: Out of Africa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: In what I expect will be periodic commentaries on U.S. policy in Africa, I aim to offer unorthodox, paradigm changing, thought-provoking and controversial policy recommendations and prescriptions to the Trump Administration...
What Do “WE” Want and Do Now (that “WE” Have the Opportunity to Do it)? (Part VI) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Posted in Al Mariam’s Commentaries By almariam On December 11, 2016
Author’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock...
What Do WE Want and Do Now (that Fortress T-TPLF is Under a State of Emergency) (Part IV) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock of the impact of the recent uprisings in Ethiopia against the backdrop...
Ethiopia 2016: We MUST Remember November! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. For not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are also responsible for what we are doing with those memories.” Elie Weisel
Ethiopian Martyrs of June and November, 2005
On...