Welcome to the emerging Ethiopia-an oligarchic authoritarian state that juggles the support and international assistance of an ambivalent west and a regardless China. In the tradition of Marx’s dialectical materialism (an orphan of modernity currently bashed for being Teleological, Universalist and Eurocentric), one thing is evident- every stage of societal development has systemic contradictions and hence sows its seeds of destruction.
Post election 2010, much of the discussion among students of Ethiopian politics was not about the election outcome. Instead, it was about the direction the country is taking given the inevitable ‘win’ of the EPRDF. In fact, the public paid more attention to the internal dynamics of the EPRDF, the new cabinet appointments and the much awaited new faces of EPRDF. Read the rest of this entry »
