In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember the vivacious optimism that inundated the United States when the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s. This was not glee… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Aggregate aid is to the Ethiopian economy what Obama's fiscal stimulus was to the American economy: minus these injections, both economies would suffer catastrophically.… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
