In June 2019 Jacobin published “The New Scramble for Ethiopia,” an analysis that placed Abiy Ahmed’s political opening against the earlier developmental-state model associated with Meles Zenawi and asked who would capture the country’s next economic ordering.
Left and academic readers used the essay to debate liberalization, ethnic federalism, and foreign capital at a moment when Ethiopia looked newly open to investors and newly unstable at home.
Kept as politics analysis archive, the Jacobin piece dates one influential socialist reading of Ethiopia’s 2019 scramble.
Sources: Jacobin