Medemer Book Review-Part II
“Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Laureate 2019, 280 pp. (October 2019) Reviewer’s Note: Part I of my...
“Medemer” by Abiy Ahmed, Ph.D., An Interpretive Book Review in Two Parts
By almariam “Medemer” (original in Amharic), Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, 280 pp. (October 2019) Part I — The “philosophy” of “Medemer” Reviewer’s Note: This review...
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