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ETHIOPIA AS AN IMAGE: THE CZECHOSLOVAK AND EUROPEAN PRESS OF THE 1920S AND EARLY 1930S

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Záhořík J.
Asian and African Studies
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2008
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vol. 17
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issue 1
90 - 110
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This paper, based on the research in the National Archive of the Czech Republic, analyses the European (and mainly Czechoslovak) way of imagining Ethiopia during the period of the Italian-Ethiopian tensions. It thus characterizes the period of the 1920s and early 1930s. For a detailed insight into the world of the media with regard to Ethiopia, a large number of newspapers is discussed. Though Ethiopia was a member of the League of Nations, her position within the then world was far from being equal. The way Ethiopia was imagined by Europe corresponds to the way Ethiopia was treated. This means that imagining distant places and distant people is always accompanied by stereotypes which in times of war may legitimize an action as was the case with Fascist Italy. As the war was nearing, Ethiopia gained more and more sympathies around the world which complicates some further generalization. The multi-dimensionality of images is thus the main aim of this work.
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DEBATING LANGUAGE POLICY IN ETHIOPIA

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Záhořík J.
Asian and African Studies
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2009
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vol. 18
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issue 1
80 - 102
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This paper is focused on the development of language policy in Ethiopia from the reign of Haile Selassie I (1930-1974) until the present day. After the Federal Constitution was introduced in 1994, Ethiopia has been divided into eleven regions along ethno-linguistic borders. The constitution gave every nation the right to develop its own language and its own culture, though only Amharic, Tigrigna, Somali, and Afaan Oromo became major regional languages. This situation caused growing ethno-linguistic nationalism, which can be seen especially in the Oromiya region as well as the SNNPR (Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region). This paper will examine theoretical principles as well as case studies that seem to be important for a comprehensive analysis of language policy in Ethiopia. While the period until 1974 was characterized by a policy of Ethiopianization, the Derg government (1974-1991) introduced a policy of literacy and alphabetization. Several languages were standardized, including Somali, Oromo, Sidama and Wolayta. In reality, Amharic prevailed as a lingua franca and became the main administrative language.
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POWER, CHURCH AND THE GULT SYSTEM IN GOJJAM, ETHIOPIA

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Baye T. G.
Asian and African Studies
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2016
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vol. 25
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issue 1
51 – 73
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Since the introduction of Christianity to Ethiopia, there had been inter-dependence between the state and the church. Both parties benefited from this state of affairs. The Orthodox Church played as the ideological arm of the state. The king became head not only of the state, but also of the church. The church enjoyed royal protection and patronage, ranging in concrete terms like the granting of land, called the gult system. The gult system was an important economic institution and connection between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the state. The system was essentially a political and economic relation between the state, the church and the cultivators. It not only included tribute and administrative rights, but also entailed direct control over land. In the Ethiopian academics, the issue of the gult system has been treated and examined in its totality. There is an evident gap in our knowledge of the dynamics of the gult system and its ideological, administrative, political and economic implications. This paper, based on published and unpublished materials, examines the dynamics of gult, state and church relations inter-sectionally. It attempts to identify changes and continuities in the basic pattern of relations and a variety of institutional linkages. To this end, a great deal of archive collections on Gojjam Governorate General from the Ethiopian National Archives and Library Agency has been consulted and reviewed to add new and useful insights and understandings on relations and interests between the cultivators, the church and state. Data was presented and mainly analysed qualitatively.
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TEWODROS AND TIPU AS WARRIORS AGAINST IMPERIALIST BRITAIN: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

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Sil N. P.
Asian and African Studies
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2015
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vol. 24
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issue 1
18 – 44
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Tipu Sultan of Mysore, Mughal Empire (1782 ‒ 99) and Emperor Tewodros of Ethiopia (1855 ‒ 68) were regnant rulers who wished to modernise their respective realms with the help of Western powers. Tipu sought French assistance to fight the British and Tewodros sought British military and technical aid to ward off Ottoman menace from Ethiopia’s northern borders as well as to subdue the intractable domestic feudal warlords with a view to unifying and stabilising his fledgling empire. Both demanded to be treated by their preferred donor countries as equals. However, they failed to achieve their ends and collided with the British ‒ Tipu Sultan against the British East India Company and Tewodros against Queen Victoria’s (1837 ‒ 1901) government. Consequently, both rulers lost the battle and their lives, the causes of their defeat and downfall being, inter alia, their personality traits and their lack of understanding of Anglo-French diplomatic and colonial complications.
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