{"id":279400,"date":"2019-06-19T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhLWluc2lnaHQuY29tLzIwMTkvMDYvMTkvdGhlLWJhc3RhcmRpemF0aW9uLW9mLWV0aGlvcGlhcy1tb2Rlcm5pdHkv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:17:05","slug":"tezera-tazebew-examined-the-unfinished-conflicted-path-of-ethiopias-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279400","title":{"rendered":"Tezera Tazebew examined the unfinished, conflicted path of Ethiopia\u2019s modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 Ethiopia Insight published Tezera Tazebew\u2019s essay \u201cThe bastardization of Ethiopia\u2019s modernity,\u201d arguing that the country had abandoned traditional order in stages without fully replacing it with stable modern institutions.<\/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=\"Tezera Tazebew examined the unfinished, conflicted path of Ethiopia\u2019s modernity\" \/>\n<p>He linked post-1991 ethnic federal identity, rising intercommunal violence, and fragile-state rankings to a longer scholarly debate on what \u201cmodern Ethiopia\u201d meant from Haile Selassie through the Derg and into Abiy Ahmed\u2019s reform period.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics-analysis archive, the Ethiopia Insight essay dates a mid-2019 reading of Ethiopia\u2019s incomplete modernity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopia-insight.com\/2019\/06\/19\/the-bastardization-of-ethiopias-modernity\/\">Ethiopia Insight<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bastardization of Ethiopia&#8217;s modernity&nbsp;&nbsp;Ethiopia InsightEthiopia has undergone several partial processes of modernization. It has abandoned the traditional order, but has not yet fully replaced it.<\/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-279400","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-1aGs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279400","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=279400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755280,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279400\/revisions\/755280"}],"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=279400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}