Ethiopia
Understanding Environmental Policy Processes
Policy books on specific issues with specific cases tend to have a shorter shelf life of relevance. Keeley and Scoones wrote “Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa” in 2003, and it largely falls in this category. The book has three cases as chapters (Ethiopia, Mali, Zimbabwe) and some general chapters on knowledge, power and […]
Tags: #Agricultural Policy #Environmental Policy #Ethiopia #Policy #Policy Networks
The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia
Part of the Reading Ethiopia series This book was written by Lovise Aalen in 2011 and it is unfortunate that I had not read this book until now, given the geography and topics covered (apologies Dr Aalen if you are out there). The author says this book explores a unique experiment in institutionalizing the politics of […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Ethnicity #Ethnofederalism #Governance #Politics
The Horn of Africa
One of the Horn of Africa’s long-time scholars, Christopher Clapham, wrote “The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay” (2017), with Oxford University Press. A lot of the book, expectedly, focuses on Ethiopia. And, unfortunately for Clapham, the world of Ethiopia and the Horn has changed dramatically since. The book is accessible, which is often […]
Tags: #Clapham #Ethiopia #Horn of Africa #Somalia #Somaliland
Land, Landlessness and Poverty in Ethiopia
Emerging out of a 2016 workshop organized by the Forum for Social Studies in Addis Ababa (also the publisher of the book), the 2018 publication “Land, Landlessness and Poverty in Ethiopia” presents cases / chapters from four regions in Ethiopia (SNNP, Amhara, Oromia, Tigray). The book is edited by Dessalegn Rahmato, and covers a topic […]
The Act of Living
NOTE: This was a book review that was published in 2020. As a country with sustained levels of high macro-economic growth, Ethiopia has been suggested as amongst Africa’s Lions (Bhorat and Tarp, 2016), an economic grouping envisioned as potentially following the Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Macro-economic growth does […]
Tags: #Addis Ababa #Anthropology #Di Nunzio #Ethiopia #The Act of Living
Rural Ethiopia in Transition
The WIDE project in Ethiopia is one of the few long-term qualitative projects following rural areas (starting rural research in 1994, and following the changes since). There are 20 communities being followed, unfortunately the so-called “emerging regions” are not included (Afar, Benishagul Gumuz, Gambella, Somali). The book “Rural Ethiopia in Transition – Selected Discussion Briefs, […]
Tags: #Alula Pankhurst #Catherine Dom #Ethiopia #Rural Ethiopia in Transition #WIDE Project
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
With Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia, Terje Østebø contributes a historical ethnography to two under researched domains. First, to African and Ethiopian studies and secondly to Islamic studies. As a field of study, African studies, and Ethiopian studies in particular, have tended to focus on dominant themes, such as the largest populations, key livelihoods, […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Bale Insurgency #Conflict #Ethiopia #Ethnicity
Emperor Haile Selassie
Ohio University Press has a series of “Short Histories of Africa”. I recently decided to pick up most of the collection for potential use as reading materials for classes. This post covers “Emperor Haile Selassie” (2014) by Bereket Habte Selassie. Books usually take more than a year to write, get reviewed, go into publication, and […]
Tags: #Biography #Emperor Haile Selassie #Ethiopia #History #Ohio University Press
Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy
Started in 2015, published in 2019, and penned by leading thinkers on the Ethiopian economy (Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer, Arkebe Oqubay) “The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy” is a treasure. Standing at 955 pages, I am aware of no similar effort to cover the diversity of the country’s economy. The contributing authors are a […]
Tags: #Arkebe Oqubay #Christopher Cramer #Ethiopia #Ethiopian Economy #Fantu Cheru
Land to the Tiller
One of Ethiopia’s most radical policy changes in the modern era was land reform, which nullified tenure agreements and redistributed land (changing much of rural Ethiopia from large land holders with farmers as tenants / sharecroppers to farmers as landowners). Ann Oosthuizen (whose connection to this issue or interviewee is not explained) published an interview […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Land #Land Reform #Land to the Tiller #Zegeye Asfaw
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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