The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-1991: From a Monarchical Autocracy to a Military OligarchyFirst published in 1997. Ethiopia, the only country in Africa to survive the nineteenth-century European scramble for the continent, has a long, unique, and complex history. This stretches back over three million years to Lucy, or as the Ethiopians call her Dinkenesh, the earliest known ancestor of the human race, to the political turmoil of late twentieth-century Africa. Teferra Haile-Selassie writes partly as a historian, but also, and perhaps more importantly, as a sincere and sensitive observer, who lived through the later historical events which he describes, and indeed played a notable role in several of them. |
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... influence were in tatters and gradually marginalised , solicited the alliance of the emerging Oromo political force through intermarriages . The Oromo nobility that had established its power - base in Yeju did not hesitate to take ...
... influence were in tatters and gradually marginalised , solicited the alliance of the emerging Oromo political force through intermarriages . The Oromo nobility that had established its power - base in Yeju did not hesitate to take ...
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... influence after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Moreover , the introduc- tion of a centralised government and the creation of a standing army had ended regional political influences of the nobility . The Italian occu- pation ...
... influence after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Moreover , the introduc- tion of a centralised government and the creation of a standing army had ended regional political influences of the nobility . The Italian occu- pation ...
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... influence from other political organisations were favourable con- ditions for POMOA to mould the peasants ' associations into a structure that would fit its designs . The organising of urban dwellers succeeded the formation of workers ...
... influence from other political organisations were favourable con- ditions for POMOA to mould the peasants ' associations into a structure that would fit its designs . The organising of urban dwellers succeeded the formation of workers ...
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The Reign of Emperor Tewodros II 185568 | 6 |
The Reign of Emperor Yohannis IV 187289 | 21 |
The Reign of Emperor Menilek II 18891913 | 27 |
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