Saturday 13 June 2026
Joseph Abraham is an independent researcher. He is interested in the histories and present realities of human movement, conflict and concepts of indigeneity, notably in and between Britain and the Horn of Africa.
Articles by the Author
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Styled as a project of modernisation, Addis Ababa’s ongoing transformation discloses a governmental logic in which development and infrastructure function as technologies that produce an ordered and controllable urban space, revealing not a city insulated from national crises but one that is…
Styled as a project of modernisation, Addis Ababa’s ongoing transformation discloses a governmental logic in which development and infrastructure function as technologies that produce an ordered and controllable urban space, revealing not a city insulated from national crises but one that is…
Analysis
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As Addis Ababa turns to gold to stabilise a fragile economy, its attempt to suppress artisanal mining and promote industrial projects reveals a deeper paradox: the state cannot secure growth without stability, yet its pursuit of control often produces the instability it seeks to resolve.…
As Addis Ababa turns to gold to stabilise a fragile economy, its attempt to suppress artisanal mining and promote industrial projects reveals a deeper paradox: the state cannot secure growth without stability, yet its pursuit of control often produces the instability it seeks to resolve.…