Like any other nation with a long history, Ethiopia’s political history requires an objective reading as a succession of epochs, each shaped both by local and global sociopolitical events. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front was a coalition of ethnic-based rebel forces that ruled from 1991 to 2018. That brings us to the current reformation of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, which the Tigray People’s Liberation Front rejected, retreating to Mekelle, Tigray. When the Tigray People’s Liberation Front came into power, it moved the country from centralism to the extreme side of regionalism. DeCort’s claim that ‘in Abiy’s Ethiopia, Christian imperialism is resurgent’DeCort has labored to prove his claim that ancient Christian imperialism is resurging in Ethiopia by drawing parallels between ancient Ethiopian rulers’ “messianic self-understanding” and that of contemporary leaders.

Source: Ethiopian News August 05, 2022 13:49 UTC