Daniel Mulugeta
Biographic Data
| ID | 86259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Mulugeta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulugeta |
| SIGNATURE | MULUGETA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8999-2090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bringing Pan-Africanism Back in as an Analytical Category
This article advances Pan-Africanism as an analytical category for understanding African politics and global entanglements. It shows how recurring debates over Pan-Africanism’s existence, critiques of essentialism, and the persistent emphasis on unity have shaped dominant approaches to the concept in public discourse, policy practice, and scholarship. This study argues that approaches which treat Pan-Africanism primarily as a normative ideal or i…
Continental pan-Africanism: The first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence
The first All-African People's Conference (AAPC), convened in Accra in December 1958, marked a pivotal moment in the quest for African autonomy and solidarity. Led by Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore, the conference aimed to empower Africa by advocating for independence from colonial rule and asserting a distinct African voice globally. Drawing from primary and secondary sources, this article investigates the AAPC as a seminal event in the emerge…
Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin
Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings
The histories buildings tell: Aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia
In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the 'great tradition' in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia's architecture. Within these stories we find two ideas in apparent tension. One is an attachment to state history as exceptional, unified and ordained by God. This is told through architectural continuities reaching back to the pre-Christian A…
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa
In 2002, the African Union (AU) inaugurated its Chinese-funded, designed, built, and furnished headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, receiving the admiration of African leaders. The building was hailed as a new material expression of pan-African unity. This article explores the affective potency of the AU built environment to unsettle and unfurl conceptions of pan-African identity. Beginning with an analysis of sensory impressions of th…
Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: Corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist
This article examines the ways in which ideas of state are constituted in North Ethiopia by focusing on corruption and development discourses found in local public domains as well as on religious metaphors and idioms which define the roles and obligations involved in governance. Specifically, I highlight the ways in which people draw on experiences of everyday life to formulate the normative basis of state authority and how this contributes to th…
Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: Paradoxes of Community Empowerment and Participation in Irrigation Management
This article examines processes by which development project implementations afford the state the appearance of being a separate structure. By exploring the implementation of an important state development project in North-western Ethiopia, the Koga Irrigation and Watershed Management (KIWM) scheme, it shows why and how the project plan does not correspond to the real life of the scheme. The article unpacks assumptions that policymakers and devel…
Towards a cooperative use of the Nile: A legal perspective
This article seeks to find a way to achieve a cooperative regime for the management of the Nile waters with a special reference to the development of international legal regimes on the non‐navigational uses of international watercourses. The main argument is that the role international law can and ought to play is not so much in establishing a hard and fast rule on apportionment of shared waters; rather, it can offer several principles based on w…
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa
In 2002, the African Union (AU) inaugurated its Chinese-funded, designed, built, and furnished headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, receiving the admiration of African leaders. The building was hailed as a new material expression of pan-African unity. This article explores the affective potency of the AU built environment to unsettle and unfurl conceptions of pan-African identity. Beginning with an analysis of sensory impressions of th…
Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin
Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: Paradoxes of Community Empowerment and Participation in Irrigation Management
This article examines processes by which development project implementations afford the state the appearance of being a separate structure. By exploring the implementation of an important state development project in North-western Ethiopia, the Koga Irrigation and Watershed Management (KIWM) scheme, it shows why and how the project plan does not correspond to the real life of the scheme. The article unpacks assumptions that policymakers and devel…
Continental pan-Africanism: The first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence
The first All-African People's Conference (AAPC), convened in Accra in December 1958, marked a pivotal moment in the quest for African autonomy and solidarity. Led by Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore, the conference aimed to empower Africa by advocating for independence from colonial rule and asserting a distinct African voice globally. Drawing from primary and secondary sources, this article investigates the AAPC as a seminal event in the emerge…
The histories buildings tell: Aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia
In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the 'great tradition' in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia's architecture. Within these stories we find two ideas in apparent tension. One is an attachment to state history as exceptional, unified and ordained by God. This is told through architectural continuities reaching back to the pre-Christian A…
Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: Corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist
This article examines the ways in which ideas of state are constituted in North Ethiopia by focusing on corruption and development discourses found in local public domains as well as on religious metaphors and idioms which define the roles and obligations involved in governance. Specifically, I highlight the ways in which people draw on experiences of everyday life to formulate the normative basis of state authority and how this contributes to th…
Towards a cooperative use of the Nile: A legal perspective
This article seeks to find a way to achieve a cooperative regime for the management of the Nile waters with a special reference to the development of international legal regimes on the non‐navigational uses of international watercourses. The main argument is that the role international law can and ought to play is not so much in establishing a hard and fast rule on apportionment of shared waters; rather, it can offer several principles based on w…
Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: Corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ideals of mengist
This article examines the ways in which ideas of state are constituted in North Ethiopia by focusing on corruption and development discourses found in local public domains as well as on religious metaphors and idioms which define the roles and obligations involved in governance. Specifically, I highlight the ways in which people draw on experiences of everyday life to formulate the normative basis of state authority and how this contributes to th…
Dynamics of state-society relations in Ethiopia: Paradoxes of Community Empowerment and Participation in Irrigation Management
This article examines processes by which development project implementations afford the state the appearance of being a separate structure. By exploring the implementation of an important state development project in North-western Ethiopia, the Koga Irrigation and Watershed Management (KIWM) scheme, it shows why and how the project plan does not correspond to the real life of the scheme. The article unpacks assumptions that policymakers and devel…
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa
In 2002, the African Union (AU) inaugurated its Chinese-funded, designed, built, and furnished headquarters building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, receiving the admiration of African leaders. The building was hailed as a new material expression of pan-African unity. This article explores the affective potency of the AU built environment to unsettle and unfurl conceptions of pan-African identity. Beginning with an analysis of sensory impressions of th…
Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings
The histories buildings tell: Aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia
In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the 'great tradition' in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia's architecture. Within these stories we find two ideas in apparent tension. One is an attachment to state history as exceptional, unified and ordained by God. This is told through architectural continuities reaching back to the pre-Christian A…
Continental pan-Africanism: The first all-African people’s conference and the struggle for Africa’s independence
The first All-African People's Conference (AAPC), convened in Accra in December 1958, marked a pivotal moment in the quest for African autonomy and solidarity. Led by Kwame Nkrumah and George Padmore, the conference aimed to empower Africa by advocating for independence from colonial rule and asserting a distinct African voice globally. Drawing from primary and secondary sources, this article investigates the AAPC as a seminal event in the emerge…
Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin
Bringing Pan-Africanism Back in as an Analytical Category
This article advances Pan-Africanism as an analytical category for understanding African politics and global entanglements. It shows how recurring debates over Pan-Africanism’s existence, critiques of essentialism, and the persistent emphasis on unity have shaped dominant approaches to the concept in public discourse, policy practice, and scholarship. This study argues that approaches which treat Pan-Africanism primarily as a normative ideal or i…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · State (computer science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)