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Abstract: How do development projects shape desires, expectations, self-knowledge, and knowledge of the other' Is the presence of the Chinese in Africa a revamped colonialism' Miriam Driessen’s Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness speaks to the complicated feelings of Chinese road builders posted to Ethiopia. The book starts with an account of the Chinese workers’ motivations to move to Ethiopia (chapter 1). It then discusses how the Chinese preserve their ethnonational identity (chapter 2), establish intimate relationships with local women (chapter 3), and discipline Ethiopian laborers (chapter 4). To the dismay of the Chinese managers and foremen, their conduct turns out to be counterproductive when the Ethiopian workers ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Daniel Mains’s study of Ethiopia’s development uses the process of construction as a site for exploring state–society relations. This is a timely book that should be required reading for scholars and development practitioners who are interested in understanding the politics of late developers. Using contemporary Ethiopia as a case study, the author examines citizen participation, the role of social networks, and foreign assistance in economic development. The author notes that the proliferation of construction projects is not unique to Ethiopia. He traces how megaprojects were the order of the day in Africa and in developing countries in other parts of the globe until the World Bank and the IMF, under structural ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The short and unsuccessful reign of Iyasu V (r. 1910–16), most commonly referred to as Ləj Iyasu, remains one of the most interesting and controversial episodes in modern Ethiopian history. His rise to the throne in the wake of the incapacitation and eventual death of his grandfather, Mənilək II (r. 1889–1910), was divisive and confusing. Moreover, his overthrow by leading figures of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥədo Church and nobility was a seminal event in the history of twentieth-century Ethiopia.It is this latter event that will be my focus in this article. However, it is not my intention to offer new insights into either the political–social forces that precipitated the event, nor engage in a detailed analysis ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When the military government in Ethiopia came to power in 1974, the political ideology of Marx and Lenin inspired the leaders of the country to engage in a socialist transformation of land ownership and rights. Eminent land scholar Rahmato described the land reform as thorough and radical, swiftly eliminating landlordism.1 Land was, as the student movement had called for, given to the tiller.2 Every tenure contract was nullified, all land was transferred to the state and owned by the “public,” and then distributed to people with usufruct rights. With a deep history of minority elite control and precarious tenancy for the majority, this was a radical moment that would have a profound impact on society.3 The ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Buildings’ forms not only affect the way people inhabit them but can have an enduring impact on how people live around and remember them. This present study will chart the history of one structure in Somalia that in the five decades between its inauguration in 1938 as the Fascist Party headquarters and its abandonment at the century’s end was put to use by as many forms of political administration: Italian colonial rule, the British military occupation, the Trusteeship Authority mandated by the United Nations (UN), and finally postcolonial government, which included both a decade of civilian regimes and two under a military one. Perhaps no other Fascist Party headquarters (Casa del Fascio) in all of Italy and her ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Frederick Mercer Hunter, the first political agent and governor of British Somaliland, is a virtually forgotten figure in imperial historiography, despite his key role in the annexation of one of Britain’s African possessions. An officer in the British Indian Army, Hunter rose to become a senior bureaucrat in the colonial administration of Aden, before leading a successful personal campaign to extend British rule over the northern coastline of modern Somalia and the interior hinterland, a territory larger than both Sierra Leone and Nyasaland. Despite this achievement, compared with the extensive biographical coverage of his contemporaries, such as Sir William Mackinnon and Sir George Goldie, references to Hunter in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ethiopia is a fascinating case for the social sciences and the humanities. Within the confines of a single country one can find every conceivable form of social cleavage. These are sometimes mutually enforcing when they overlap, thereby exacerbating social divisions; at other times, the cleavages are cross-cutting and thus help put breaks on us-versus-them type of social polarization and confrontation. Although some ethnolinguistic communities are internally homogenous and continue to live in their ancestral lands insulated from competing territorial claims, others are more heterogenous as a result of a complex history of centuries of settlement and resettlement and have come to reside among others who are ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The title is deceptively simple and does not fully capture the expansiveness and ambition of Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis’s Modernist Art in Ethiopia—a pioneering study of the artistic, intellectual, and ideological forces that shaped modern Ethiopia.1 Drawing on a vast archive—of newspapers, magazines, historical works, political tracts, poems, novels, interviews, and visual art—the book presents a rich and complex picture of Ethiopia from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, a period during which the country witnessed perhaps the most dramatic changes in its millennia-old history: the end of an imperial reign that stretched back to antiquity and a series of revolutions that hurled it from imperial to ... Read More PubDate: 2022-01-29T00:00:00-05:00
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