Ethiopia - The Politics of Famine

War, famine, pestilence and doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist dictatorship; these are the four horsemen of modern Ethiopia's particular apocalypse. They have combined with one another into a brew more poisonous even than the sum of its parts. Just how a people of such ancient culture and proud history, and of such intelligence and sophistication, could have come to this sad fate requires some words of explanation. That the name Ethiopia has, over the past two decades, become synonymous with starvation, civil war and man's massive inhumanity to his fellow man, is a source of deep pain to Ethiopians everywhere o those in the growing Ethiopian diaspora as much as to those who remain within Ethiopia's borders and of bewilderment and puzzlement to others. There must be a reason for it. This volume, the result of a recent symposium that included two very distinguished former high officials of the Mengistu regime, provides much of the answer.

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By James Finn

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• Authors: James Finn
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780932088475
• ISBN: 978-0-932088-47-5
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 199 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 186 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 1980 bis 1989 n. Chr., 1960 bis 1969 n. Chr., 1970 bis 1979 n. Chr., 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., Afrikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Äthiopien