Is Ethiopia heading for state collapse?(Aklog Birara)

[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

 

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[Toyin Falola]

Gloria:

Africa is imploding. Options are:

1. A vigorous pursuit of a Pan-African agenda, with far-reaching consequences around borderless zones;
2. The conversion of older identities into autonomous nations;
3. Semi-autonomous nations within current countries, etc.

None will be easy. The people of Sokoto have more affinity with those in Niger. Sokoto to Niamey is no more than 600 kilometers, shorter than Sokoto to Ibadan.

I was part of the delegation to congratulate Abiy Ahmed for winning the Nobel, and many are now traumatized over recent developments.

 

TF

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[Emeagwali, Gloria (History)]

It is complicated.

When I found out that about

 a thousand federal troops of the Northern

 Command, based in Mekelle, were kidnapped and

Imprisoned by the TPLF, in November 2020, before

the outbreak of war, I recognized Abiy’s 

predicament. If he did nothing

he could have faced a nationwide mutiny of

soldiers. Who knows? The military may have

staged a coup against him. So his declaration 

of war was hardly by choice.

A real ceasefire on both sides and a united

Ethiopia  is the best option.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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