According to the article, among the challenges that Ethiopia is facing, the proliferation and exasperation of “nationalist populisms” hold by far the highest rank. But is it true that only a return to the ideology of developmental state can guarantee the unity of the country? The truth is that the concept of developmental state is unworkable in an ethnically divided country. If it achieves electoral success through the reelection of Abiye as Prime Minister and the sidelining of nationalist populist movements, the remaining urgent task would be to institutionalize it. It is urgent because if charisma continues to operate as a personal magnetism it will deteriorate, as sated earlier, into a personal dictatorship.

Source: Ethiopian News February 14, 2019 14:26 UTC