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Derese Getachew Kassa is currently a PhD candidate at the school of Urban and Public Affairs in the University of Louisville (KY), USA. He is a regular contributor to addisnegeronline.com.
Even more entertaining are the journalists of ETV who ‘moderate’ these debates. The pattern is cleanly set. They tell us that election is next door; the round of debate that we are on; and the rules of engagement. The speed with which they recite the text; their nervous and apprehensive gesture; and zealous control of time gives you an impression about the sort of pressure they are under.
Read moreIn spite of taking up this leading role to the democratization of greater Ethiopia, however, much of the discourse within Oromo nationalism is framed on the project of ‘decolonization’. This, in my opinion, is self-defeating on two major grounds: historic and political.
Read moreHow can we disagree without being disagreeable? It is a million dollar question for Ethiopians. How can we literally make a ‘transition in discourse’ before we even imagine of a transition in politics. Don’t you reckon that we need a ‘disciplinary revolution’ in political discourse? I deem it extremely important that I have given it a name: “Addis Negerigna”
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