| Ethiopia: The Politics of Famine Contributor(s): Finn, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0932088465 ISBN-13: 9780932088468 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $86.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 963.07 |
| LCCN: 89039247 |
| Series: Perspectives on Freedom |
| Physical Information: 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: War, famine, pestilence and doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist dictatorship; these are the four horsemen of modern Ethiopia's particular apocalypse. They have combined with one another into a brew more poisonous even than the sum of its parts. Just how a people of such ancient culture and proud history, and of such intelligence and sophistication, could have come to this sad fate requires some words of explanation. That the name Ethiopia has, over the past two decades, become synonymous with starvation, civil war and man's massive inhumanity to his fellow man, is a source of deep pain to Ethiopians everywhere to those in the growing Ethiopian diaspora as much as to those who remain within Ethiopia's borders and of bewilderment and puzzlement to others. There must be a reason for it. This volume, the result of a recent symposium that included two very distinguished former high officials of the Mengistu regime, provides much of the answer. |
