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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...
Darkness at Noon in AmeriKKKa? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Hail to the Grief (Chief) to Come!?
Donald Trump is now President-elect of the United States.
He was elected by the same rigged system he so vociferously complained about: “I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged, I have to be honest.”
Well,...
Why I am Voting for Hillary Clinton on November 8 and YOU Should Too! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
For the past year, I have railed against Donald Trump in numerous blogs.
But I have not said exactly why I am supporting and voting for Hillary Clinton.
I support and will vote for Hillary Clinton on November 8, 2016 NOT because she is the...
So, You Think You are a Democrat? [Wondmagne Ejigu]
The rationale behind the question is challenging. A democrat believes in the rule of people; it is a person who demands democracy, who advocates and protects human rights. Does it sound like someone you consider yourself to be?
My reason to...