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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...
Ethiopian Dreams for 2015 and Beyond [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,… [and] see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams”
A Happy New Year to all of my readers!!!
I get to celebrate New Year twice every year. The first on September 11, the Ethiopian New...
“We Shall Persevere, Ethiopia!” [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”, decreed Maya Angelou, the great African American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer.
“I shall persevere!” wrote Eskinder Nega, the imprisoned and...
The Castro Brothers, the African Brothers and Brother Obama [Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Cuba finally coming in from the Cold (War)?
“I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun,” said Fidel Castro in an interview in January 1959, shortly after he ousted President Fulgencio...
Saving the ICC from African Thugtators [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
International Criminal Court Prosecutor throws in the towel
It is a dark and gloomy month on the “Dark Continent”! It is the worst of times in Africa when a man in the highest political office accused of egregious crimes against humanity...