Each book on exiled shelves has a story besides the one between its covers: who bought it, and where, and when, and how it arrived in its current country.
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Despite the number of political prisoners in my country, we know very little about letters or poems written in Ethiopia’s prisons, as very few of them are published.
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This week columnist Mesfin Negash writes about the importance of researching, writing, and interpreting history in order to learn from it.
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Mesfin Negash discusses citizens who believe they can create a “freedom island” under a dictatorship system that inherently curtails freedom.
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The temporary removal of two historically significant statues in Addis Ababa has sparked outrage at the Ethiopian government’s continuous lack of transparency.
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In this week’s Ethiopiques Mesfin Negash explains how the big changes in political systems that we seek are not possible without enacting small changes.
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Exiled journalist Mesfin Negash writes a letter to Kaliti, one of Ethiopia’s most notorious prisons, and asks if it can ever be redeemed.
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