War & the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia
Images of war, narratives of suffering and notions of ethnicity are intrinsically linked to Western perceptions of Africa. Filtered through a mostly international media the information of African wars is confined to narrow categories of explanation emerging from and adapted to a Western history and political culture. This book aims at reversing this process; to look at war and suffering from the point of view of those who fight it and suffer through it. In doing so it reveals that the...
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Examines war and the impact of warfare on identity formation in Ethiopia.
1 Introduction: Making Enemies & Allies 1 2 Land, Hierarchy & Alliances in Highland Ethiopia 23 3 Historical Trajectories of Enemy Images 36 4 Alternating Enemies & Allies: Ethnicity in Play 61 5 War Behind the Front Lines: Individual Approaches 99 6 Reconstructing 'Ethiopianness': Competing Nationalisms 130 7 Ethiopia & its Malcontents: Purifying the Nation 175 8 Conclusion: Arresting Ethiopian Nationalism 197 Postscript: After War, New Enemies 208 List of Official Interviews 218 References 220 Index 233
