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How Should Ethiopia Reform Its Ethnic Politics?
ኢትዮጵያ የብሔር ፖለቲካን እንዴት ትሻገረው?Fitih (ፍትሕ መጽሔት), No. 113, December 2020 (ታህሳስ 2013 ዓ.ም), pp. 8–9. Amharic · magazine scan
Reproduced from the printed magazine. Cited in the book (Chapters 11 and 17).
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Most of the outlets these pieces first ran in no longer exist online, and print issues of Fitih (ፍትሕ መጽሔት) are hard to find outside Ethiopia. Each piece is preserved here from the printed page, the author’s dated archive, or the Internet Archive. Beyond silently corrected typing slips, nothing has been revised; where the author has changed his mind, the book is where he says so.
On this page
- How Should Ethiopia Reform Its Ethnic Politics? (Fitih, 2020)
- Annihilation or “Prosperity 2.0”? (Fitih, 2021)
- Competitive Sovereignty and the Fate of Negotiations in Ethiopia (Ras Media, 2021)
- Territorial Divisibility Narrative (2021)
- Merera Gudina’s Falsehood About Emperor Tewodros, Exposed With Evidence (2020)
- Negotiations Barely Bring Sustained Peace in the Face of Dual Sovereignty (2021)
- Can Abiy Ahmed’s Administration Stand Up to the Post-conflict Challenges? (Meleket, 2020)
- Only Acceptance, Readiness to Disagree and De-legitimized Ethnicity… (Addis Zeybe, 2020)
- Wolkait, the Horn of Africa’s Soft Heel (Fitih, 2021)
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Annihilation or “Prosperity 2.0”?
ድምሰሳ ወይስ ደብረ-ብልፅግና?Fitih (ፍትሕ መጽሔት), No. 164, December 2021 (ታህሳስ 2014 ዓ.ም), pp. 4–5. Amharic · magazine scan
Reproduced from the printed magazine. Its analytical coda is the Ras Media op-ed below (no. 03).
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Competitive Sovereignty and the Fate of Negotiations in Ethiopia
Ras Media, 12 November 2021. English
The companion op-ed to no. 02, written in the same month. Ras Media has since gone offline; the text is preserved here in full.
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Territorial Divisibility Narrative: The New Fueling Agent for Ethnic Turmoil in Ethiopia
Essay, 2021. English
Typeset from the author’s document; the original document is available on request.
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Merera Gudina’s Falsehood About Emperor Tewodros, Exposed With Evidence
መረራ ጉዲና አጼ ቴዎድሮስን አስመልክቶ ያሰራጨው ቅጥፈት በማስረጃ ሲጋለጥFacebook essay, 30 August 2020 — the longest essay in the author’s archive, with its reference list intact. Amharic
Archive entry [79] in the book, from the author’s dated Facebook archive. Quoted passages are set smaller and slanted to read apart from the author’s own sentences; typing slips are silently corrected.
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Negotiations Barely Bring Sustained Peace in the Face of Dual Sovereignty
Facebook essay, 11 November 2021; an earlier version ran on Meleket Media, November 2020. English
Archive entry [78] in the book; companion to no. 03.
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Can Abiy Ahmed’s Administration Stand Up to the Post-conflict Challenges?
Meleket Media, 27 November 2020. Byline as printed: “By Baye T. Asmamaw — Virginia, US (Meleket Media, political analyst).” English
Meleket Media has since gone offline; recovered from the Internet Archive’s capture of the original page.
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Ethiopia: Only Acceptance, Readiness to Disagree and De-legitimized Ethnicity Can Take Us Forward
Addis Zeybe, 25 December 2020. English
First published by Addis Zeybe; that site is no longer online at its original address — recovered from the Internet Archive’s capture of the original page.
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Wolkait, the Horn of Africa’s Soft Heel
ወልቃይት፣ የአፍሪካ ቀንድ ስስ ተረከዝ!Fitih (ፍትሕ መጽሔት), No. 166, ታህሳስ 2014 ዓ.ም (December 2021/January 2022), pp. 7–8. Amharic
Print-style reproduction typeset from the author’s text — the original printed pages were not available to scan.
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