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 Bang Copy Share Image
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications… — Eskinder Nega Africa 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… — Eskinder Nega Act 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.… — Eskinder Nega Country 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… — Eskinder Nega Doom 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… — Eskinder Nega Age 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… — Eskinder Nega Birth Copy Share Image
Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes. — Eskinder Nega Brazen Copy Share Image
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse. — Eskinder Nega Am 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… — Eskinder Nega Bars Copy Share Image
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega Crime 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… — Eskinder Nega Acts 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… — Eskinder Nega Aggregate Copy Share Image
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated. — Eskinder Nega Cannot 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… — Eskinder Nega Arab Copy Share Image
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely… — Eskinder Nega 21st century Copy Share Image
