He also attempts to assess the success of the same in state building after military victory. To logically link the armed struggle with the state building project up to 2012 is also an important undertaking of the book, if an offshoot of these two objectives. Under the first objective, the writer gives a lucid account of the 17 years of armed struggle of the TPLF/EPRDF. The inferences about the armed struggle are very helpful for understanding state building under the TPLF/EPRDF. Once the reader has perused the first chapters, he is groomed for the later discussion in the book about state building.

Source: Ethiopian News January 17, 2020 11:24 UTC