{"id":274262,"date":"2019-04-28T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMidWh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNC8yOC9hLXllYXItb2YtcnVwdHVyZXMtYW5kLWhvcGUtcmVja2xlc3MtZWxpdGVzLWFuZC10aGUtYWRkaXMtYWJhYmEtcXVlc3Rpb24tYnktbWlrZS1tYW1vL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:45","slug":"mike-mamo-on-reckless-elites-and-the-addis-ababa-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274262","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mamo on reckless elites and the Addis Ababa question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Mike Mamo\u2019s borkena essay \u201cA Year of Ruptures and Hope\u201d framed Addis Ababa\u2019s contested status and elite recklessness as central tests of Ethiopia\u2019s first year under Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-598256\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/east-wollega-featured.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mike Mamo on reckless elites and the Addis Ababa question\" \/>\n<p>The capital question is not urban trivia. It sits at the hinge of Oromia claims, federal symbolism, and who gets displaced when master plans move.<\/p>\n<p>Mamo\u2019s tone treated hope as provisional. Rupture was already visible in identity politics and elite bargains that treated the city as a prize rather than a shared civic space.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics archive, the Addis Ababa question essay belongs with eviction and federalism files. Capitals reveal who the Ethiopian government thinks the country is for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/04\/28\/a-year-of-ruptures-and-hope-reckless-elites-and-the-addis-ababa-question-by-mike-mamo\/\">borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Year of Ruptures and Hope: Reckless Elites and the Addis Ababa Question (By Mike Mamo)&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comBy Mike Mamo April 28,2019. It is just over a year since the Oromo uprising of 2014 \u2013 2018 help topple TPLF&#8217;s predatory state. The eventual t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":598256,"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-274262","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\/2026\/09\/east-wollega-featured.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19lA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274262","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=274262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601459,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274262\/revisions\/601459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}