Landscapes of ambition and neglect
While Ethiopia’s leaders chase shiny new projects that are grand monuments to themselves and modernity, they ignore the country’s rich, natural heritage.
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Solen Feyissa is an academic technologist at the School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.
While Ethiopia’s leaders chase shiny new projects that are grand monuments to themselves and modernity, they ignore the country’s rich, natural heritage.
The writer’s brother died in the political violence that has become part of how political power is being contested in Ethiopia.
The current political conflict, now a civil war, in Ethiopia partly has its roots in disagreement among elites on how to narrativize Ethiopian history.
The photographic record of an academic conference which key question was “How is technology rooted in a longer history of African experiences?”