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Christopher Clapham is a doyen of scholarship on twentieth and twenty-first century Ethiopian politics. He has published extensively not only on Ethiopia, but also on the Horn of Africa and the African continent at large. His two previous monographs on Ethiopia, Haile Selasssie's Government (Praeger 1969), and Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Cambridge 1990) have been standard references on the topics addressed in the two books. His various articles and conference papers on Ethiopia have been additional sources of information and insights for students of modern Ethiopian politics.

AbstractInsistent calls to 'decolonise' African studies beg the question of what this quest actually involves. If it refers to an attempt to understand the continent's diverse and complex societies that builds on their indigenous structures and values, this was a task initiated during the decolonisation era of the 1950s and early 1960s. Led by historians and drawing heavily on insights from anthropology, it led to a revolution in the understanding of Africa, which nonetheless failed to maintain its impetus as a result of the political authoritarianism and economic decay of the post-independence period, which had a particularly damaging impact on Africa's universities. Of late, however, the phrase has come to refer to developments notably in North America and Europe, which in subordinating the study of Africa to agendas in the global North may appropriately be described not as decolonisation but as recolonisation. A genuine decolonisation of knowledge production for Africa must rest on a return to its roots within the continent itself.

"The Horn of Africa: Regional Politics and Dynamics" published on by Oxford University Press.

Review

Fast alle afrikanischen Befreiungsbewegungen hatten beträchtliche Schwierigkeiten damit, den Übergang vom Kampf zur Regierung zu vollziehen. Das vermehrte Auftreten dieses Phänomens in Afrika war Anlass für einen internationalen Dialog zwischen führenden Kampfveteranen, politischen Entscheidern und Experten Anfang Oktober 2012. Erfahrungen aus afrikanischen Staaten legen nahe, dass nach dem Abklingen der unmittelbaren Befreiungseuphorie charakteristische Probleme auftauchen, die ihren Ursprung in den Befreiungsbewegungen selbst finden. (KAS-Auslandsinformationen / SWP)

"Fast alle afrikanischen Befreiungsbewegungen hatten beträchtliche Schwierigkeiten damit, den Übergang vom Kampf zur Regierung zu vollziehen. Das vermehrte Auftreten dieses Phänomens in Afrika war Anlass für einen internationalen Dialog zwischen führenden Kampfveteranen, politischen Entscheidern und Experten Anfang Oktober 2012. Erfahrungen aus afrikanischen Staaten legen nahe, dass nach dem Abklingen der unmittelbaren Befreiungseuphorie charakteristische Probleme auftauchen, die ihren Ursprung in den Befreiungsbewegungen selbst finden." (Autorenreferat)