When Lawmakers Fan Dangerous Flames: The Case of Dr Sisay Mengiste
Questions for Troubling Rhetoric Where does freedom of speech end, and the incitement of dangerous, ethnically charged propaganda begin? At what point […]
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When Falsehoods Wear Fancy Fonts: The Absurdity of Manufactured Maps
There’s something truly ironic about attempts to rewrite history—how they often stumble on the very tools they try to wield. A case […]
How a False Unity of Mythical Ethiopia Was Manufactured Through Annexation and Assimilation
Introduction Emperor Haile Selassie ascended to the throne on April 2, 1930. Just over a year later, on July 16, 1931, he […]
The Systematic Dispossession of Oromia: Language Status Denied, Lands Mythologized and Engineered, Names Rewritten, and a Mountain Nearly Claimed
An Article by Invitation Introduction In the age of satellites, algorithms, and global awareness, one might assume that cultural denial has no […]