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ETHIOPIA: FROM BULLETS TO THE BALLOT BOX BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK This book is inspired both by the hitorical memory of events led to the 1974e upheavel in ethiopia the upheaval of may/june 1991 an the political transformations in the making. Prof. Kinfe Abraham writes,"my hitorical memory begins with my years as a student and student leader at the HaileSelassie Univeristy "Musing over the golden age of student poltics from 1965 to 1972. those were the years in which students played avant grade roles in the bklack awakening in North America,the French Unveristy Campuses and in international Poltics at large. he adds "I remember the persinalties who made campus politics in ethiopia enriching and empowering .' This book is especally dedecated to those visionaries who scarcely fathomed that the post-1974 nightmare would claim their lives and that of thousnads of others. equally important, the book is informed adn inspired by the may/jhune upheaval which has revived the hope and optimismof the late 1960s and early 1970s which seems to promise that5 the "ballot box" might be the final arbiter which determines the new directiion of the political and economic life of Ethioipia. From the preface of Ethiopia from bullets to ballot box Kinfe Abraham(Prof.) Library of congress cataloging in publication date: the bumpy road to Democracy and political economy of transition. ISBN 0-932415-79-2 |
