Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia: Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi

548 Pages·2015·7.558 MB·English

by  Gérard Prunier, Éloi Ficquet

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ETHIOPIA

GÉRARD PRUNIER
ÉLOI FICQUET
(editors)
Understanding
Contemporary Ethiopia
HURST & COMPANY, LONDON
First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by
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© Gérard Prunier, Éloi Ficquet and the Contributors, 2015
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This book is dedicated to my Ethiopian daughters, Tana and Mehret. G.P.
Both editors wish to honour the memory of their late friend and colleague
Jacques Bureau (1956–1998), who was their predecessor as the first director
of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. More than any-
body else, he helped us love and understand Ethiopia. G.P. & E.F.

CONTENTS
About the Contributors ix
Abbreviations xiii
Maps xvi
Introduction Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet 1
1. Ethiopians in the Twenty-First Century: The Structure and
Transformation of the Population
Éloi Ficquet and Dereje Feyissa 15
2. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) and
the Challenges of Modernity
Stéphane Ancel and Éloi Ficquet 63
3. The Ethiopian Muslims: Historical Processes and Ongoing
Controversies Éloi Ficquet 93
4. Go Pente! The Charismatic Renewal of the Evangelical
Movement in Ethiopia Emanuele Fantini 123
5. From Pan-Africanism to Rastafari: African American and
Caribbean ‘Returns’ to Ethiopia Giulia Bonacci 147
6. Monarchical Restoration and Territorial Expansion: The
Ethiopian State in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century Shiferaw Bekele 159
7. The Era of Haile Selassie Christopher Clapham 183
8. The Ethiopian Revolution and the Derg Regime
Gérard Prunier 209
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UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ETHIOPIA
9. The Eritrean Question Gérard Prunier 233
10. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)
Medhane Tadesse 257
11. Federalism, Revolutionary Democracy and the Developmental
State, 1991–2012 Sarah Vaughan 283
12. Elections and Politics in Ethiopia, 2005–2010
Patrick Gilkes 313
13. Making Sense of Ethiopia’s Regional Influence
Medhane Tadesse 333
14. The Ethiopian Economy: The Developmental State vs. the

Free Market René Lefort 357
15. Addis Ababa and the Urban Renewal in Ethiopia
Perrine Duroyaume 395
16. The Meles Zenawi Era: From Revolutionary Marxism
to State Developmentalism Gérard Prunier 415
Notes 439
Index 481
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