Ethiopia Needs To Look Beyond Its Past

Ethiopia Insight posted on 25 February 2019 a commentary titled "Easing Ethiopia's Ancestral Burden" by Mohammed Girma, author of a book on Ethiopia.

The author argues that Ethiopian understanding of its past, its approach to the future and its conceptions of what is wrong and what is right is conditioned by its culture, which defines boundaries of relationships and dictates the formulation of Ethiopian social order. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is confronted with both a political crisis and the challenge of a culture that looks to the past.