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Bye, Bye Karuturistan, Ethiopia! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
RIP: A post-mortem on Karuturistan, Ethiopia
It was too good to be true. It is too bad it was true for the people of Gambella in western Ethiopia.
Last month, the ignoble demise of Karuturi Global, Ltd. (a/k/a “Ethiopian Meadows Plc.”,...
Ethiopia’s Perfekt Elektion? Much Ado About Nothing![Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Who knows about Ethiopia’s perfekt elektion in May 2015?
It is the middle of February 2015 as I write this commentary. But I always remember in November.
I see some of my Ethiopian friends carrying long forlorn melancholy faces. A few lines...
Ethiopia’s “Odious Debt” to the Odious World Bank [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Ethiopia as “sovereign deadbeat” state due to debts incurred by the T-TPLF
In my last commentary, The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation”, I cryptically observed in passing, “… The USD$600 million is money the...
The World Bank and Ethiopia’s “Growth and Transformation” [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The World Bank lies, Ethiopia dies… from onerous “odious debt”
I had completely forgotten about the so-called “Growth and Transformation Plan” (GTP) of 2010, until the World Bank reminded me of it last week.That “Plan” was the...
Boycotting Ethiopian National Elections: Damn if You Do, Damn if You Don’t! [Messay Kebede]
I maintain that the upcoming elections will be a turning point for Ethiopia, not because they will result in a major change of policy subsequent to a renovation of the ruling elite but because the absence of change will compel opposition groups...
World Bank-ruptcy in Ethiopia [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
The moral bankruptcy of the World Bank in EthiopiaEthiopians have been the object of a cruel bureaucratic joke by the World Bank. Last week, an 81-page official investigative report surfaced on line showing World Bank bureaucrats in...
MLK: “When Will You Be Satisfied?”[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [MLK] gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in August 1963, he asked the “devotees of civil rights” a simple rhetorical question: “When will you be satisfied?”
One of his answers was particularly poignant....
Andargachew Tsgie Before the T-TPLF Inquisition? [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Cirque d’Andargachew” presented by the Ringling T-TPLF Brothers
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) is often credited with the observation that one should “judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”
Voltaire also wisely...