Ethiopia's Unfinished Democratic Struggle - From Divided Opposition to Managed Exclusion and Missed Victories

Ethiopia's Unfinished Democratic Struggle - From Divided Opposition to Managed Exclusion and Missed Victories

Addis Abeba -- In my recent article, titled "Ancient Pride, Modern Paralysis: Deciphering Ethiopia's Long Struggle for Democracy," published by Addis Standard, I examined the successive regimes that have governed Ethiopia and the deeper societal patterns that continue to reproduce democratic failures. I argued that these failures stem from a legacy of inherited rather than reconstructed power and from a political culture shaped more by dominatio…