Is Ethiopia Democratic? Oldspeak vs. Newspeak

Issue Date October 1998
Volume 9
Issue 4
Page Numbers 55-61
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About the Author

Richard Joseph is John Evans Professor of International History and Politics at Northwestern University. He is the author of Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria (1987; reissued 2014). He is writing books on post-1975 Nigerian politics and society; and on governance, development, and the state in Africa.

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