Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974

Using a rich mix of oral testimony, student newspapers, academic surveys, and on occasion his personal experience, the author traces this growing "cultural dislocation" through a series of linked thematic discussions. Early chapters explore the nature of education in post-war Ethiopia (Chapters 1-3); subsequent ones chart the genealogy of the radical turn in politics and the emerging corporate identity of students (Chapters 4-8); and a final chapter situates the cultural causes of radicalism alongside social and economic ones (Chapter 9).