People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Picture: REUTERS FOR many — in the West and SA — Ethiopia evokes images of all that is wrong with Africa: a hopelessly poor, backward and famine-prone country.
But a book by Arkebe Oqubay, Made in Africa, dispels these myths and describes the quiet revolution that has been under way since the early 1990s — roughly the period since SA’s democratic transition. After the 1991 ouster of the Soviet-backed Derg dictatorship, which had introduced a disastrous programme of control over virtually every sector of the economy, […]
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