The dust, towers and false promises of modern Ethiopia
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.
3 Articles by:
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes is the author of "Native Colonialism: Education and the Economy of Violence against Traditions in Ethiopia" (Red Sea Press).
The psychological pains of Ethiopian intellectuals
The desire to be absorbed into and consumed by the West, to find solace in its seductive promises, animates Robin Dimet’s film, “Sami’s Odysseys.”
Holding living bodies in graveyards
The violence of keeping Ethiopian manuscripts in Western institutions.