23-06-2025
What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics'
Author: Terrence Lyons
The book offers insight into a political group, with its origins in a small insurgency in northern Ethiopia, which transformed itself into a party (the EPRDF) with a hierarchy that links even the smallest village in the country to the center.
'The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics' offers a study of legacies of protracted civil war and rebel victory over the government, which continue to shape Ethiopian politics.
Terrence Lyons argues that the very structures that enabled the ruling party to overcome the challenges of a war-to-peace transition are the source of the challenges that it faces now.
