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1 - Armed Struggle and a Better Future: Dubious Connections

  • Tekeste Negash
    Tekeste Negash Professor of Modern History at Dalarna University (Sweden) and Guest Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Bologna University
    TEKESTE NEGASH is Professor of Modern History at Dalarna University (Sweden) and Guest Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Bologna University. He is author of: Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1940 (1987); Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience (1997); The Crisis of...
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Abstract

Eritrea: A Dream Deferred has eight long chapters. Statements by foreign observers made in the 1980s providebthe justification for the subtitle. Between1961 and 1991, Eritrea fought against Ethiopia. From 1981 onwards, the Eritrean landscape was dominated by the Eritrean Peoples’ Liberation Front (EPLF). Kibreab cites the statements of three authors at the beginning of his narrative. Adbul Rahman Babu (a famous Tanzanian socialist activist and writer), after two weeks in the areas controlled by EPLF, wrote that experiences with ‘liberated Eritreans give you confidence in the capacity of the African masses to take history in their own hands during the challenging journey from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom’ (p. 13) ...

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Author Biography

  • Tekeste Negash, Professor of Modern History at Dalarna University (Sweden) and Guest Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Bologna University

    TEKESTE NEGASH is Professor of Modern History at Dalarna University (Sweden) and Guest Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Bologna University. He is author of: Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1940 (1987); Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience (1997); The Crisis of Ethiopian Education: Implications for Nation-building (1990); Education in Ethiopia: From Crisis to the Brink of Collapse (2006); co-author with Kjetil Tronvoll of Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Ertirean-Ethiopian War (2000).

References

  1. Mesfin Araia, 1988, ‘Eritrea, 1941-52: The Failure of the Emergence of the Nationstate’, PhD Thesis, City University of New York.
  2. Tesfatsion Medhanie, 2007, Towards a Confederation in the Horn of Africa. Focus on Eritrea and Ethiopia, Frankfurt am Main: IKO.
  3. Shumet Sishagne, 2004, Unionists and Separatists: The Vagaries of Ethio-Eritrean Relations, 1941-1991, Hollywood: Tsehai Publishers.
  4. Alemseged Abbay, 1998, Jilted Identity, or Re-imagining Identity: The Divergent Paths of Eritrean and Tigrayan Nationalist Struggles, Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press.
  5. Tekeste Negash, 1997, Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.
  6. Tekeste Negash, 1994, “Competing Imaginations of the Nation: The Eritrean Nationalist Movements, 1953-81”, in Tekeste Negash and Lars Rudbeck, eds., Dimensions of Development with Emphasis on Africa. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute & Forum for Development Studies.

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