{"id":278908,"date":"2019-06-13T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMy9ldGhub2NlbnRyaXNtLWV0aGlvcGlhLWFuZC10aGUtZXRoaW9waWFuLWV4cGVyaWVuY2UtdGVzZmF5ZS1kZW1tZWxsYXNoL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:17","slug":"tesfaye-demmellash-examined-ethnocentrism-and-the-ethiopian-experience-in-a-borkena-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278908","title":{"rendered":"Tesfaye Demmellash examined ethnocentrism and the Ethiopian experience in a Borkena essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Borkena carried the first part of Tesfaye Demmellash\u2019s essay \u201cProgressivism in Ethiopia Today,\u201d which linked ethnocentrism, Ethiopia, and what he called the Ethiopian experience in a longer political-culture argument.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tesfaye Demmellash examined ethnocentrism and the Ethiopian experience in a Borkena essay\" \/>\n<p>The piece sat in Borkena\u2019s opinion stream as an analytical reading of identity politics and reform language rather than as a news wire about a single event.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-analysis archive, the Demmellash essay dates a mid-2019 diaspora debate about ethnocentrism and Ethiopian national identity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/13\/ethnocentrism-ethiopia-and-the-ethiopian-experience-tesfaye-demmellash\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnocentrism,Ethiopia &amp; the Ethiopian Experience (Tesfaye Demmellash)&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comIn his part I of &#8220;Progressivism in Ethiopia Today : &#8211; Ethnocentrism,Ethiopia &amp; the Ethiopian Experience, &#8221; Tesfaye Demmellash &#8230;read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"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-278908","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\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ayw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278908","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=278908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755217,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278908\/revisions\/755217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}