Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a multilingual, multi-ethnic, and multi religion country characterised by a history of intermittent political, religious and ethnic conflicts.

The following is an excerpt from Mazrui’s speech.

Western images of Black people in earlier centuries portrayed Africans as a people without history, incapable of poetry, too intellectually retarded to philosophise, and too mentally slow to be scientific.

On my way to a conference on Africa and Asia in Tanzania last month I stopped in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I was keen to make sense of the fast-paced change that has been taking place in Ethiopia after a young man, Abiy Ahmed, was appointed by the ruling party as Prime Minister in April this year.

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Previously on 9 July, a document was signed by the leaders of the Horn of Africa states in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

Introduction

Ends and means of democracy

Introduction

Africans have been at least as violent as anything ever perpetrated by other peoples; what is distinctive about Africans is their short memory of hate—so said Kenyan scholar Ali Mazrui.  By way of illustration Mazrui thus described four examples.

Our open letter is also triggered by two open letters America’s iconic civil rights leaders, Revered Jesse Jackson, wrote to President Obama and the Pope.