1st Edition

The Ethnopolitics of Ethnofederalism in Ethiopia

Edited By Jan Erk Copyright 2018
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

Ethiopia is the darling of development economists: since 2005, the country’s economic growth rate has consistently been over the 10% mark. Ethiopia is also a regional superpower with political influence across East Africa and the Horn. Furthermore, the African Union has its headquarters in the capital Addis Ababa, which further underscores the country’s growing international profile. On top of... Read more

1. ‘Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’: The Ethnopolitics of Ethnofederalism in Ethiopia  Jan Erk 2. The Original Sin of Ethiopian Federalism Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha 3. Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism: Without a Space for ‘Indigenous Peoples’? Seyoum Mesfin 4. The (Mis)Management of Ethno-linguistic Diversity in Ethiopian Cities Zemelak A. Ayele and Jaap de Visser 5. Ethiopian Federalism and the Ethnic Politics of Divided Cities: Consociationalism without Competitive Multiparty Politics in Dire Dawa Milkessa Midega 6. Constitutional Adjudication through Second Chamber in Ethiopia Assefa Fiseha 7. Federalization with a Constitutional Guarantee to Secession:  Controversies, Paradoxes and Imponderables in Ethiopia Tesfa Bihonegn

Biography

Jan Erk is the Jan Smuts Memorial Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He completed his doctorate at McGill University and his post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, in Canada. In 2018, he will become a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa.