Awol Allo
Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele Uni. Fung Global Fellow at Princeton Uni. Interested in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Oromia. RT not endorsement
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Recommended by Awol Allo
“This review of @ElleniZeleke's Ethiopia in Theory by Arash Davari is one of the best book reviews I have read in recent years - highly knowledgeable, theoretically rich, brilliantly well-written & full of insightful historical references. Highly recommend https://t.co/yIrAahburx” (from X)
Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals. In these they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist Ethiopia. Ethiopia in Theory examines the literature of this student movement, together with the movement's afterlife in Ethiopian politics and society, in order to ask: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?