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War, famine, pestilence-and doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist dictatorship; these are the four horsemen of modern Ethiopia's particular apocalypse. They have combined with one another into a brew more poisonous even than the sum of its parts. Just how a people of such ancient culture and proud history, and of such intelligence and sophistication, could have come to this sad fate requires some words of explanation. That the name Ethiopia has, over the past two decades, become synonymous with starvation, civil war and man's massive inhumanity to his fellow man, is a source of deep pain to Ethiopians everywhere-to those in the growing Ethiopian diaspora as much as to those who remain within Ethiopia's borders-and of bewilderment and puzzlement to others. There must be a reason for it. This volume, the result of a recent symposium that included two very distinguished former high officials of the Mengistu regime, provides much of the answer. ... Read more

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When the oppressive Marxist-Leninst dictatorship of the Derg collapsed in 1991, there was hope that a new era might begin for a democratic Ethiopia. However, backed by the United States, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Front established a government that would not share power. Instead of a transition to democracy, the EPRF denied opposition parties meaningful participation in elections, violated human rights, and intensified ethnic distrust among the people. According to critics, repressions of the government are on a scale equivalent to those of the world's worst dictatorships. Vestal examines the plight of the Ethiopian people and counters questionable government pronouncements. He concludes with suggestions for a revised U.S. policy toward Ethiopia and for peaceful negotiations between the government and its political opposition to develop a more democratic approach. ... Read more

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BOOK REVIEW
IT IS AN EXCELLENT AND EDUCATIONAL BOOK. WELL ANALYSED AND UNBIASED. IT MUST BE READ BY ALL ETHIOPIANS AND THE US STATE DEPT. OFFICIALS. DO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO HAVE IT PRINTED INPAPER PACK SO THAT MANY ETHIOPIANS CANBUY THE BOOK AT A CHEAPER PRICE?

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IT IS AN EXCELLENT AND EDUCATIONAL BOOK. WELL ANALYSED AND UNBIASED. IT MUST BE READ BY ALL ETHIOPIANS AND THE US STATE DEPT. OFFICIALS. DO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO HAVE IT PRINTED INPAPER PACK SO THAT MANY ETHIOPIANS CANBUY THE BOOK AT A CHEAPER PRICE? ... Read more

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The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power after winning an impressive military victory over the army dictatorship of Mengistu's DERG just a decade ago. This volume is the outcome of an intensive monitoring, based on empirical research over the intervening years in various parts of Ethiopia, of the growing gap between the new regime's democratic intentions and the very different outcome. Focusing in particular on the elections held in 2000 and 2001 but also providing a more wide-ranging presentation of issues and context, the contributors focus on various aspects, including gender dimensions, urban and rural contrasts, class and caste conflict, and environmental factors.
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This book examines the rise and fall of the Ethio–Eritrean federation which existed from 1952 to 1962. The author argues that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia. The UN imposed federation and its constitution was doomed to fail, as these were foreign to Eritrean and Ethiopian conceptions of power. ... Read more

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VALUE LESS!!
This book is a product of a person who does not know what he is saying.Please nobody should weast his time reading this ethiopist ideas.

Excellent!
Excellent presentation. The book focuses more on passing on facts (excelent footnotes and appendix) to the reader than giving analysis of events and their significance from the author's point of view. It definitely sheds a new perspective of the beginning of the Ethio-Eritrean war. There is not much about TPLF, but there's an interesting coverage of rise and fall of ELF and the rise of EPLF. As strange as it may sound, the book also makes you appreciate that the war was carried out as it was. It makes you appreciate the Ethio-Eritrean civil society. ... Read more

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Chapters: Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Defense. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Ethiopia) -The Ministry is run by a Minister and two state Ministers. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is responsible for developing and promoting tourism in Ethiopia but most recently it has been embroiled in a Major International scandal surrounding the Celebration of the Ethiopia Millennium in 2007. Despite written promises to reimburse participants for travel and expenses, as well as paying the hosting and production costs, in order to improve Ethiopia's poor international image at their own expense,, officials from the Ministry simply refused to honor these commitments, citing poverty. Mohamouda Ahmed Gaas at one point stated that Sheik Mohammed Al Amoudi had promised, but later failed to pay a portion of the hosting cost to the Ministry, as well as many other reasons for not paying. During the visit to Ethiopia, the 37 contestants were paraded around state-owned enterprises who were all promoted as lead sponsors and were even received by the President of Ethiopia H.E. Girma Wolde-Giorgis, and also visited the African Union Headquarters, in Addis Ababa. For two years the UK based organiser had been pressing the Ministry and various Officials of the Government of Ethiopia to pay them for the service obtained by Mohamouda Ahmed Gaas , the Ethiopian State Minister for Culture and Tourism representing the Ministry but the Ministry and Government of Ethiopia have simply refused to pay a single penny of the costs to the company .since November 2007. The winners were never paid their prizes, nor were any of the technical crew ev...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21462792 ... Read more

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The presence of women as instructors in higher learning institutions play a major role in efforts to promote the education of women in Ethiopia. Women need to be present in colleges and universities to voice the needs and various programmes that affect women?s life. When women possess the expertise required for effective decision making, are well represented in higher education institutions and are gender conscious, they have the power to shape policies and introduce change. Currently, however, few Ethiopian women possess this quality and very few are serving as university lecturers. The main reason for their less representation is generally due to their poor performance records during their undergraduate studies. Therefore, this text provides a glimpse of the issues and challenges of women in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. ... Read more

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EXCEPTIONALLY EXCELLENT BOOK TO READ
Joseph E. Harris' best selling book "African-American Reaction to War in Ethiopia 1936-1941" prevail vividly the historical facts and the African-Americans and other Africans reactions. Mr. Harris dedicated his research to bring the strong relationship between Ethiopians and African Americans. You will read more in detail about the aggressive movement of the African-American to defend Ethiopia from Italians' fascism in the following manner: the African-Americans wrote a letter to the city mayor all the way to President Roosevelt. They boycotted the Italian own business and demonstrated on the America streets against Italian. They enlisted to go to Ethiopia to fight the war beside their Ethiopians brother and sisters.

I'm going to take the direct quote from the book to show the deepness of the relationship and its highest pick during mid 1930's as one of the African-American statement.

"...a tendency to avoid the label of Negro in favor of Ethiopian. One black American said, "I do not want to be called Negro, colored, or [n-word]. Either term is an insult to me or you. Our rightful name is Ethiopian." (P. 7)

African Americans was significantly enlisted in different cities in America to go to Ethiopia to fight the Fascist Italians. The American State Department issued a statement based on the legislation:

..."American citizen shall be deemed to have expatriated himself when he had been naturalized in any foreign state in conformity with its laws."

The African Americans viewpoint to the American State Department as Orhardo Andrews, of New York City, stated.

"First the Africans who are residing here and all the West did not come here voluntarily, but by an act of kidnapping which today is punishable in the United States by death...As for loosing our citizenship of this country, we don't give a nick about that. This citizenship is of no value to us.... If you country can not protect us when we are citizens and living here, why should we worry about it?" (P. 41)

In the same book you would learn about Ethiopians who were resided in American. Dr. Melaku Bayen was one of prominent among the many Ethiopians who worked with African American in New York City. He was also the editor and the father of "ETHIOPIAN REVIEW" magazine as far back as in the early 1930. You can request the copy of the magazine form American Congress Library. The magazine encompassed all the black people in the globe. It was rich with Pan-Africanism ideology.

I found it diligently researched book to learn the oldest relationship between Ethiopian and African-Americans. I recommend for anyone who would like to learn the magnitude support Ethiopia received during 1935 to 1941 mainly from our African American brothers and sisters.

I'm certain the book will also shed some light about European unfounded characterization of Ethiopians to justify and qualify their dark history against humanity. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on April 17, 2000. The length of the article is 569 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EAST AFRICA - Eritrea.(relations with Israel and Ethiopia)(Brief Article)
Publication: APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East (Newsletter)
Date: April 17, 2000
Publisher: Pam Stein/Input Solutions
Volume: 39Issue: 4Page: NA

Article Type: Brief Article

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When does the US support partition of a warring or failing state? Why has the US supported partition for some secessionists, or irredentists, but not for others? Is it a policy of last resort or are there certain variables that are strong determinants of this position right from the start? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining US policy toward secessionist movements in three countries during the first decade following the end of the Cold War: Iraq, Ethiopia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina. ... Read more

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an excellent book
Evelyn Farkas has written a brilliant book about how we should think about separatist movements in decided countries, and what the United States can do to prevent the type of secessionist wars that have destroyed societies and ruined millions of lives around the world. This book is a must read for policy makers who will be dealing with divided states, and for anyone interested in thinking deeply about what can be done to prevent the disasters that have occurred in places like Bosnia and Ethiopia. I could not recommend this book more highly.

First Hand Account
As an avid student of history and politics, I really enjoyed reading this author's analysis of US policy and learning about ethnic conflict and how it affects individuals and families.

I now have a deeper understanding of the issues that the US is faced with around the world including the current situation in Iraq.

What makes this book truly special is the author's ability to incorporate a first hand account of many events. Clearly this author can talk the talk and walk the walk.

I strongly encourage anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the US Governments policy making engine and/or ethnic conflict and how it effects those caught in the crossfire to purchase this book. ... Read more

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This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based rebellions that occurred between 1941 and 1970. The author attempts to uncover certain key features of popular protest in pre-revolutionary Ethiopia. Drawing upon ample evidence, he concludes that these revolts were not a consequence of capitalist exploitation, as was usually the case in most Third World countries, but were connected with the rise of a modern, bureaucratic, multi-ethnic national state. Ethiopian peasants were neither conservative nor compliant, as is often assumed, although their defiance was nevertheless essentially non-revolutionary. These interesting and fresh findings also suggest a possible explanation for the eruption and intensification of armed conflict in rural Ethiopia after 1974. On a theoretical level, the study makes a significant contribution to the ongoing analysis of social movements in agrarian societies. ... Read more