By Amsale Getnet Aberra Over the years I have met with a range of people from different parts of the world who could not stop talking about Ethiopia being the cradle of
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Aklog Birara, PhD Have you ever wondered, as I have, why Ethiopia and the Ethiopian people are caught in a vicious cycle of disillusionment, dispossession and disempowerment? Have you pondered, as I
More Prof. Alemayehu G Mariams It was a repetition of 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004… Everyday millions of Ethiopians woke up only to find themselves trapped in a time loop where their lives replayed
More By Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam “So what! Soo what!! Sooo whaaat!!!” was the repetitive mantra of dictator Meles Zenawi recently in response to pesky questions lobbed at him in parliament about his
More November 16, 2010 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has gone on a legal offensive, filing a document with the country’s High Court to have her political
More By Alemayehu G. Mariam December 7, 2009 The inconvenient truth about Africa today is that dictatorship presents a far more perilous threat to the survival of Africans than climate change. The devastation
More Reviewing the Damaging Effects of Ethiopian Diaspora Politics on the Wider Community and its Future Initiatives: The Search for Alternative Mechanisms By Maru Gubena February 28, 2009 — Before commencing with the
More By Mammo Muchie A year on from Ethiopia’s new millennium, Mammo Muchie highlights the country’s historic role as the cradle of African nationalism. Arguing that reparations remain due from the period of
More By Professor Mammo Muchie July 11 2008 Inspiring Quote! “A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
More By Maru Gubena December 7, 2010 — Five year ago, though there were feelings of uncertainty and fearfulness about the future direction of Ethiopia itself, as well as its politics – including
More Those who Came Divided Abroad Must Return Home United! Forward with the Democratic movement in Ethiopia! October 30, 2007 By Mammo Muchie October 26, 2007 — We have now in Ethiopia political
More By Messay Kebede August 66, 2007 — Various Ethiopian websites exhibit articles that highly congratulate and praise the achievements of mediators in the long-drawn-out attempt to free the CUD leaders. According to
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By Negussay Ayele June 30, 2007 In the previous commentary “Meles Zenawi and Etrhiitorpeia” posted in www.ethiopians.com (March 20, 2007), with Ethiopia smothered in the title, we scanned the zero sum game PM Meles Zenawi and
More By Zerihun Tesfaye November 10, 2006 — It has now become evident that the rumblings heard around CUDP members and support groups in the Diaspora for the past few months has resulted
More Al Mariam’s Commentaries On October 16, 2006 Alemayehu G. Mariam and Obang Metho In all of the excitement surrounding H.R. 5680, it seems we have overlooked some simple but critical questions: Are
More Looking at Forgotten Recent Events and Future Strategies Conducive to a Mature Political Culture for Ethiopia: Putting the Cart Before the Horse? By Maru Gubena* July 6, 2006 — As Ethiopia’s political
More The Black and White of Civil disobedience and Armed Struggle: Are we in the Gray Area? By Afura Burtukana * Mar 19, 2006 — Despotic governments all over the world almost always
More There is much confusion and consternation in the Ethiopian community in North America over the fact that the democrats on the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations of
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