Melakou Tegegn

Biographic Data

ID4052283
NAMEMelakou Tegegn
GIVEN NAMESMelakou
FAMILY NAMETegegn
SIGNATURETEGEGN M
AFFILIATIONSa Panos Eastern Africa, Regional Office , P.O. Box, 34033 , Kampala , Uganda
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Mengistu's ‘Red Terror

    Melakou TegegnARTICLEAfrican Identities2012Cited by: 2References: 1

    What went down in the contemporary history of Ethiopia as the ‘Red Terror’ was not only an indelible scar but also has far-reaching implications for the country's future as well. The ‘Red Terror’ was unleashed by the military government of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in the mid-1970s to decimate the left opposition. Political polarisation led to extreme form of violence. Undoubtedly, the forces involved both as instigators and victims of the ‘R…

  • Power Politics

    Open AccessMelakou TegegnARTICLEJournal of Developing Societies2008Cited by: 3

    This article looks at the role of the main opposition party in Ethiopia, Kinijit, during the parliamentary elections of 2005. It shows that the election was unique in that it galvanized the people of Ethiopia to come out and vote en masse. Kinijit was mainly instrumental in mobilizing the people and provided hope for a political change towards democracy. They saw in Kinijit the capacity to lead the country as opposed to the ruling party, trusted …

  • The Post-war Border Dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea

    Open AccessAbebe Zegeye, Melakou TegegnARTICLEJournal of Developing Societies2008

    The claims and counter-claims over the troubled border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, at the root of the crisis between the two governments, were by no means resolved by the war of 1998–2000. Indeed, when the jointly-formed post-war commission delivered its ruling on the boundaries, its terms were rejected out of hand by Ethiopia. Eritrean border claims rest largely upon the maps drawn up by Italy in 1934, while Ethiopia's claims largely rests on …

  • Introduction to ‘The Ethiopian Millennium’

    Open AccessAbebe Zegeye, Melakou Tegegn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Developing Societies2008References: 1

  • The EPRDFvis‐à‐visEthiopia's development challenges

    Melakou TegegnARTICLEAfrican Identities2008References: 1

    This article is about the major development challenges that Ethiopia faces. It also provides a critique of the policies that the government of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) follows to ‘mitigate’ them. It highlights the magnitude of these problems that have accumulated throughout the reigns of the three post‐war governments and shows how bottlenecks have arisen in the transition process from unfreedom to democracy, a…

  • A prologue to critical discourses on Ethiopia

    Pietro Toggia, Melakou Tegegn et al.ARTICLEAfrican Identities2008

    Ethiopia has a much longer history of self‐rule than any other African country. The 1896 Battle of Adwa at which Italy's colonialism succumbed to Ethiopia has been memorialized by Africans as one o

  • Development and Patronage

    Melakou TegegnEDITORBOOKDevelopment and Patronage1997

    Far from being a liberating process for all, much of what has been done in the name of development serves to reinforce the intellectual, material, and financial dependence of those on the receiving end. Some argue that the very concept of development is essentially a vehicle in which cultural values and social norms, as well as resources, are exported from one part of the world to another, along a one-way route from rich to poor. Aid thus becomes…