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Messay Kebede. RADICALISM AND CULTURAL DISLOCATION IN ETHIOPIA, 1960-1974. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2008. 235 pp. $75.00 (cloth).
Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 was authored by Professor Messay Kebede of the University of Dayton's Department of Philosophy. It offers readers a fresh and insightful perspective on the Ethiopian student movement of the earmarked period, and provides a personalized viewpoint and a reanalysis of traditional thinking about the motivations behind radicalized student revolutions in general.
In varied ways, the sociocultural and political characteristics of Ethiopia are laid out here in such a manner that the reader benefits from Kebede's ability to weave together cohesively the components contributing to this time in the history of the nation. To express his perspective on the development of a radicalized student movement in Ethiopia during Haile Selassie's reign, he provides evidence that challenges the traditionally held belief that socioeconomic conditions are the main factor contributing to the development of such events.
Kebede agrees that such poor conditions can add fuel to a growing revolutionary fire among students,...