{"id":273482,"date":"2019-04-18T18:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T22:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTGh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNC8xOC9ldGhpb3BpYS10aXBwaW5nLXBvaW50LWJvb2stYnktZXJteWFzLWFtZWxnYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:24:34","slug":"ethiopia-tipping-point-ermyas-amelgas-book-on-a-country-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273482","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Tipping Point &#8211; Ermyas Amelga\u2019s book on a country at a crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, entrepreneur and economist <strong>Ermyas Amelga<\/strong> released Ethiopia: Tipping Point, a book framed from jail-cell reflection on a country he said faced existential political and economic stakes.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-278976\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-story-of-a-young-street-bookseller-in-Addis-Ababa-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C398&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia: Tipping Point : Ermyas Amelga\u2019s book on a country at a crossroads\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Borkena carried the launch note: Amelga, known for ventures including Zemen Bank and other firms after returning from U.S. finance work, argued Ethiopia stood at a critical juncture as polity, economy, and society.<\/p>\n<p>Books written under detention enter public debate already contested. Readers argued over Amelga\u2019s record as much as his thesis. That noise is part of the historical file, not a reason to erase the text.<\/p>\n<p>For a culture-and-politics archive, Tipping Point marks how business elites and prisoners of economic cases tried to narrate the reform years. Whether one trusts the author, the \u201ctipping point\u201d phrase captured a mood many Ethiopians shared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/04\/18\/ethiopia-tipping-point-book-by-ermyas-amelga\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Tipping Point ( book by Ermyas Amelga )&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comAmelga, LLC announces Ermyas Amelga&#8217;s debut book Ethiopia: Tipping Point, available worldwide on Amazon. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":278976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/The-story-of-a-young-street-bookseller-in-Addis-Ababa-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=1174%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1990","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600863,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273482\/revisions\/600863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}