Eskinder Nega

We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic…

— Eskinder Nega

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

— Eskinder Nega

I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.

— Eskinder Nega

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

— Eskinder Nega

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to…

— Eskinder Nega

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

— Eskinder Nega

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely…

— Eskinder Nega

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications…

— Eskinder Nega

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage…

— Eskinder Nega

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries.…

— Eskinder Nega

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my…

— Eskinder Nega

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly…

— Eskinder Nega

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might…

— Eskinder Nega

I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was…

— Eskinder Nega

Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would…

— Eskinder Nega

As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term…

— Eskinder Nega