• Rachel Dubale

The demolition of an historic district in Addis Ababa shows a central contradiction of modernization: the desire to improve the country while devaluing its people and culture.

• Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes

Successive Ethiopian governments have continued a 'modernizing' project that not only offers people false dreams, but actively dislocates them from the things that gave them purpose in the past.

• Howard French

Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

• Sean Jacobs